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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 14:04:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> <20030822005323.2ff66948.david@realityrift.com> <20030822020403.625ffbf5.david@realityrift.com> In-Reply-To: <20030822020403.625ffbf5.david@realityrift.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:49:53 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1061585377 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:49:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:49:37 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41801 Date: 2003-08-22T16:49:53-04:00 List-Id: David Holm wrote: > Another issue I see is that even though it would be a great idea to write this in Ada (I'm > thinking of stability here), there will be problems finding programmers who are able to work > on it. One way of making it easier for people to help the project might be to write the backend > in Ada with a module loader (dlopen/dlsym/dlclose would d othe trick). That way people can > contribute to the project without knowing Ada and the backend can still be kept solid. By using > some database system like berkley db for universal datastorage (by all modules) and implementing > a recovery system in the backend you should be able to have a solid system even though it will > be tainted by other languages. > > //David Holm OTOH, when the stuff you really care about is written in this strange language called "Ada", you might have some interest in learning more about it. Especially if you want to customize it and/or contribute. ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg