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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b7260fedb136ec19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Philip Brooke" Subject: Re: Popularizing Ada Date: 1999/06/16 Message-ID: <954225C62FE0593D.EF35660594E8371A.AC5524F68736C0E9@lp.airnews.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 490263187 References: <7jr7c3$rc3$1@its.hooked.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <7k8bes$vof@library2.airnews.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 NNTP-Posting-Time: Wed Jun 16 09:13:48 1999 Organization: CDC Internet (using Airnews.net!) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at cdc.net to report improper postings Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I don't know whether someone has already suggested this: A great many people access the Programming pages of About.com (formerly miningco). C++, Java, and Delphi are all there. Where is Ada? I know that it would take a dedicated person to act as an editor for an Ada section there. This probably would mean either someone with a great deal of extra time or someone whose employer thinks that his time on that project is worth while. Any other ideas on the subject? Regards, Philip Brooke pbrooke@N0SPAM.accurate-automation.com ====================================================== Kent Paul Dolan wrote in message news:7jr7c3$rc3$1@its.hooked.net... > In a thread "Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? > what is missing? " to which my offline posting composition > methods will never add a strand, Marin David Condic > wrote: > > > Remember that C was around for a long time before it > > caught on with any "mass market" appeal. > > My impression was that it caught on via BSD Unix and cheap > software for college use, and by appeal to the hacker > mentality. > > > The more we do with Ada and the more useful tools we make > > available, the more likely it is Ada will appeal to the > > masses. > > I'd rephrase that as "the more fun code we put in the way of > anyone who wants to mess with it, the quicker Ada will gain > a growing cadre of fanatic users". > > > Hey! Anybody out there want to write the next Great > > American Operating System in Ada? I'm game! Linux, watch > > out! :-) > > I think a more fruitful approach would be to rewrite and > enhance something like Nethack, in Ada, perhaps as an open > source code multi-university grad school project for a > "cooperative programming in the large" class. > > The idea here being sort of like the TV ads where the mom > doesn't tell the kids the juice drink is good for them, just > lets them find out it is fun to drink. > > Elsewhere, MDC also wrote: > > > So is there some other figure of speech we could abuse in > > this context? > > Several ideas come immediately to mind: > > "The Ada cure for the common OS"? > "The AdaOS that restores the ozone layer"? > "The AdaOS cure for cancer"? > "The Ada that saves the ecOSystem"? <-- my vote > "AdaOS for peace in our lifetime"? > "The OS in Ada that ate Manhattan"? > "Ada95OS: last millennium's answer for this millennium's problems"? > > I could go on, but I discovered a previously unnoticed > lingering fragment of a conscience at about this point. > > ===== random archive quality quote ===== > "Only the Objectivists have an answer to all our problems, and it's wrong." > -- Hans Huettel > -- > Kent Paul Dolan, , >