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-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!out03a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!hwmnpeer01.phx!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.phx!newsfe14.phx.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Nasser Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.5.204.143 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@cox.net X-Trace: newsfe14.phx 1199692901 68.5.204.143 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:01:41 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:01:41 MST Organization: Cox Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:01:36 -0800 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19252 Date: 2008-01-07T00:01:36-08:00 List-Id: "anon" wrote in message news:qxudj.88867$MJ6.7813@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > And when using the standard Ada > libraries (Ada) the program is 100% portable without modification. > I think one of the problems is that Ada standard libraries are too limited in scope for applications, at least for applications outside the scope where Ada is generally used. I'd love to use Ada for Scientific and numerical applications, but is has limited standard libraries for this. The only way to make Ada popular, is for it to have a very large library, may be as large as Java's. my 2 cents on the subject Nasser