From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE, UNRESOLVED_TEMPLATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9f9b7b3542947460 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-31 20:18:09 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!auvm!EUROCONTROL.DE!wel Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <9412311314.AA10313@eurocontrol.de> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 14:14:32 +0100 Sender: Ada programming language From: Bob Wells #402 Subject: Re: Ada magazine Comments: To: INFO-ADA%NDSUVM1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de Date: 1994-12-31T14:14:32+01:00 List-Id: Kevin Weise writes .... < snip > > called "Ada Letters", and is published by the ACM SIGAda. If you want > something flashier, with slick glossy covers & cool graphics, I would > recommend that people begin submitting more articles to Embedded > Systems, PCWeek, etc. They have been known to publish articles > favorable to Ada. < snip > What about if instead of "diving in at the deep end" and trying to come up with a full magazines worth of Ada every month, we see if we can start up a regular section in magazines like Embedded Systems, Defence Electronics, PC Magazine and even Byte? Like Kevin said above, these magazines are known to have published articles favourable to Ada. (Why wouldn't they, after all it means they get more people reading their mag!) If we started submitting articles to such "mainstream, available just about everywhere" magazines then we should be able to put Ada "in the face" of many C/C++, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc. people. (Why, what was that Hortense? Did you say Trojan Horse? Now really! (-: ) I'm sure that many people would be interested in such articles as "Using of the new features of Ada 95 to correctly implement .........." (insert favourite OO pradigm/construction/method here). Imagine what could happen if all these people "clunking along" using C++ to try and implement certain OO constructs saw the elegance and ease of the Ada 95 version! Imagine all those people finding that a free Ada compiler was available via ftp! (Why we might even get a Windoze port for GNAT out of it?) Imagine having Ada visible to management reading such glossies every month and not just when a magazine decides to run their bi-yearly special Ada issue! Imagine the feedback we would get from people looking at Ada 95 from outside? Such alternative viewpoints are, IMHO, extremely useful, especially when you have been looking at something "from the inside" for too long! As a suggestion, why not pick a magazine and then possibly reprint an article from Ada Strategies or Ada Letters when there was nothing available? We could have someone from c.l.a possibly in charge of submissions. When it was geting close to put the mag to bed, if there was nothing available then they could "plead" (-: , via c.l.a, for suggetsions or submissions. G'day Ralph Crafts, what do you think of this idea? G'day Ed Seidowitz, has your favourite "article example" "the bank accounts" been updated for Ada 95 yet? What about as an introduction article we use the article about the Ada vs. Ada 95 differences that .... wrote? (Sorry having a brain fart here, was it John Barnes who wrote such an article?) Any further ideas? David Weller what say you? Happy New Year everyone! @ -------- @ //// - ( G'day! ) @ (o o) -------- @ ----oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------------------------------------- Bob Wells "The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a soda can, when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years." @ INTERNET: wel@eurocontrol.de Compu$erve: 100272,3004 @ The Ada WWW Server is http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ Team Ada @ For exciting Ada info enter 'finger wel@s4ecawel.eurocontrol.de'