From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/21
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5x5wA.613.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com
bill_1@nospam.com wrote:
: lets face it. Ada is not used much in commerical sector.
Well, this depends on the domain you are talking about.
If you said commercial safety critical systems (commercial
aviation, nuclear power, high-speed rail transport, etc.), you would
probably be wrong. If you said commercial business systems,
I would certainly agree.
: What can be done to improve the situation?
: A very busy area these days is software development in the internet:
: Web servers and Application servers.
: ...
: silly idea? what do you think?
Building a web server or an application server in Ada seems like
a very reasonable thing to do. Building components in Ada that run
on top of one of the existing application servers also makes
sense.
Note that the ORBExpress/Ada CORBA ORB from Objective
Information Systems (www.ois.com) is written in Ada 95,
and performs many of the most critical functions of
an application server. I am quite sure OIS is not going the
open source route, but feel free to organize and get such
an effort going that way yourself. Using one of the Ada95-to-Java
compilers would make a lot of sense for part of this effort as well.
: Bill.
--
-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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