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From: "McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>
Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us?
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:15:33 GMT
Date: 2001-07-11T20:15:33+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ft237.1553$JN6.148971@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: HA137.175336$%i7.114237928@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com

In article <HA137.175336$%i7.114237928@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com>,
tmoran@acm.org wrote:

   I have a fast Ada uncompressor for the fax bit stream that I'd
> contibute, unrestricted.  Of course that leaves modem handling and UI...
>   For "a reliable Ada replacement for popular but buggy software"
> I'd suggest HP printer drivers. #.#
>   What programs should be rewritten in Ada that aren't, at least
> partly, IO drivers?

 A good, heavy duty network monitoring app. Along the lines of CheopsNG, 
with some Xtraceroute/Visualroute and the Ethereal frontend to tcpdump 
thrown in. 
 I'm working on learning to write network code so I can do it myself, but as 
my previous posts have stated, my coding skills are still pretty negligable.

 From a specifically Linux/Unix side, I think the Multimedia/video apps 
kinda stink right now. They could certainly use some work.

  I also think that pretty much any kind of server app could benefit from an
Ada implementation. Or at least benefit from some Ada contributions.

  We could also benefit alot by contributing extensions to existing apps,
written in Ada of course.

Basically, it seems that the best way to get some inertia going would
be for us to contribute as much source code to the Public and/or Open 
Source domain as possible, at least until we get some momentum built up.

  Anyways, those are a couple of ideas.

McDoobie
chris@dont.spam.me



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11 20:15 UTC|newest]

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2001-07-10  2:30 ` "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-07-10 10:41   ` Michael Erdmann
2001-07-11  6:42     ` McDoobie
2001-07-11 14:53       ` chris.danx
2001-07-11 15:36         ` Marc A. Criley
2001-07-11 16:01           ` chris.danx
2001-07-11 16:39             ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-11 18:00               ` Al Christians
2001-07-16 11:18                 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-19 21:50                   ` Kjell Mesch
2001-07-11 18:08               ` Marc A. Criley
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2001-07-13  2:08                     ` GLIDE Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-13 12:58                       ` GLIDE Marc A. Criley
2001-07-13 15:26                       ` GLIDE file13
2001-07-14  2:47                         ` GLIDE Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-14 13:53                           ` GLIDE Robert Dewar
2001-07-14 15:40                             ` GLIDE Jeffrey Carter
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2001-07-15  6:34                         ` GLIDE Simon Wright
2001-07-15 23:44                           ` GLIDE Robert B. Love 
2001-07-17 16:14                           ` GLIDE David C. Hoos
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2001-07-23 13:00                                 ` emacs Else and ada-mode Stephen Leake
2001-07-23 16:51                                   ` Marc A. Criley
2001-07-11 16:28           ` "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? Al Christians
2001-07-11 19:58             ` chris.danx
2001-07-11 20:56               ` McDoobie
2001-07-11 20:29         ` McDoobie
2001-07-13 12:46           ` chris.danx
2001-07-13 23:35             ` McDoobie
2001-07-11 22:04         ` Larry Kilgallen
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2001-07-12  2:54                         ` Emacs vs. the World Ted Dennison
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2001-07-13 22:55                     ` About private types and reusability? Didier Utheza
2001-07-13 23:06                       ` Ed Falis
2001-07-14 21:02                         ` Didier Utheza
2001-07-13 23:28               ` An Ada IDE and discussions chris.danx
2001-07-14  7:08                 ` Michael Erdmann
2001-07-14 12:52                   ` chris.danx
2001-07-15  3:46                     ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-07-16 11:12                     ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-17 13:29                       ` chris.danx
2001-07-17 14:21                         ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-17 15:55                           ` chris.danx
2001-07-17 16:58                             ` Firstish Impressions of Gtk+(GtkAda): was " chris.danx
2001-07-19 20:38                             ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-18 19:27                           ` chris.danx
2001-07-16 15:05                     ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17  7:50                       ` Emmanuel Briot
2001-07-17 10:09                         ` nicolas
2001-07-17 13:26                           ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17 15:06                             ` nicolas
2001-07-17 15:49                               ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17 22:42                                 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-18  8:13                                   ` nicolas
2001-07-17 17:58                             ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-17 18:58                               ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17 22:52                                 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-18  6:41                                 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-18 14:12                                   ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-18 16:33                                     ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-18 17:12                                       ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-18 18:35                                         ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-18 19:30                                           ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-20 15:41                                             ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-20 17:40                                               ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-20 20:18                                                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-18 19:20                                         ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-18 16:59                                     ` Making money from free software [was Re: An Ada IDE and discussions] Matthias Benkmann
2001-07-18 20:50                                       ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-19 17:08                                         ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-19 23:27                                     ` An Ada IDE and discussions Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-17 22:33                       ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-18 14:17                         ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-16 17:00                     ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-16 18:17                       ` Al Christians
2001-07-16 18:42                         ` Ed Falis
2001-07-16 18:28                       ` Mark Lundquist
2001-07-17  7:42                       ` Emmanuel Briot
2001-07-17 14:36                         ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-07-17  7:54                       ` Tor Fredrik Aas
2001-07-17 13:33                         ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-17 17:51                           ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-17 23:00                             ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-17 22:55                       ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-17 22:56                       ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-18 16:10                       ` McDoobie
2001-07-19 23:41                         ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-16 16:52                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-18 12:15         ` "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? Mats Karlssohn
2001-07-12  2:54       ` DuckE
2001-07-11  9:01   ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-07-11 17:27     ` Michal Nowak
2001-07-11 19:14       ` tmoran
2001-07-11 20:15         ` McDoobie [this message]
2001-07-12  2:20         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-13 23:34           ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-07-21 17:48     ` GianLuigi Piacentini
2001-07-16  8:40 Vinzent Hoefler
2001-07-23  0:47 ` Barry Kelly
2001-07-27 16:50   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2001-07-28 10:47     ` Barry Kelly
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-09 19:49 Michael Erdmann
2001-07-08 15:33 Michael Erdmann
2001-07-08 20:44 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-07-09  1:53 ` McDoobie
2001-07-09 16:50   ` Michal Nowak
2001-07-10  2:24   ` DuckE
2001-07-10 10:19     ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-10 22:39 ` Paul Storm
2001-07-11 20:15 ` James Squire
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