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,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 13:15:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. References: User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:15:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 994882533 24.0.109.49 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:15:33 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:15:33 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9830 Date: 2001-07-11T20:15:33+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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