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,b005456f2e66ff1d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-13 14:27:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9g7pos$m61$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B279E2A.B23C8907@lmtas.lmco.com> <9g8f08$u3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: A new market in which Ada can play? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:27:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.66.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 992467626 24.20.66.39 (Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:27:06 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:27:06 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8694 Date: 2001-06-13T21:27:06+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9g8f08$u3$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > Well, they may be in the Video On Demand market, but there wasn't a whole > lot of mention of Ada on their website. Their job postings indicated one > software engineer position in Ft. Lauderdale - and they were looking for C. That must be the "one more C programmer" from the Peter Coffee article :-) OK, that was C++, but same idea... > > Their search engine turned up a product they call MAXAda. I was unable to > find enough information about targets to determine if it was somehow usable > for building STB apps. (Price ranges and host platform info might be nice > too!) Its a hopeful sign that someone out there is building Ada and also > involved in cable video Yes, if it's true then that is a very hopeful sign. Also an ironic footnote in the history of Ada vs. Java, since Java was concieved with STBs in mind... :-) Cheers, Mark