Thanks and Happy Holidays

Thanks and Happy Holidays

[David Botton]

As we are in the heart of the EggGnog season and Gnoga is getting ready to be released as 1.0 before year end, I wanted to wish a thank you and a happy holidays to all of you that have used your Gnoggins to offer great ideas, comments or even take the plunge to start using Gnoga even before its first release.

I also wanted to publicly thank a few people :)

   First and foremost to Simon Wright for making a packaged FSF gcc/ada for Mac I would not have even bothered with Ada again if not for it. (Shareware ain't cool, especially when you can't even buy it if you wanted to)

   Pascal Obry and Dmitriy Anisimkov for AWS - AWS gave Gnoga its start even if another implementation was used in the end to allow earlier gcc/ada versions, not sure I would have ever started on Gnoga with out your work, thanks!

   Dmitry Kazakov for implementing WebSockets after just asking if he would ever would consider it and surprising me a few weeks later with it (and I thought I never slept) and refining and tuning until it has become a solid backbone for Gnoga and allowed for even more features to be added then originally planned.

   A very special thanks to AdaCore for their contributions of code back to the FSF for their work on gcc/ada (even if I'm on their "Naughty" list now ;)

   Tony Gair for being the first one to jump on the Gnoga Ark publicly

   Jeff Carter for unearthing mines and driving the optimization of Gnoga's communication layer with his mine detector game for Gnoga (http://gnoga.com:8081)

   Pascal Pignard for uncovering numerous bugs and sending lots of fixes

   Thomas Løcke for doing lots of PR for Gnoga

   Anh Voh for starting the ball rolling to optimize CPU usage

   Duncan Sands for great advice on sockets

   Jacob Sparre Andersen, Isaac Stoddard and Chris Sparks for testing

   Stéphane Rivière and Brian Drummond for early testing on Debian Jesse

   Jeremiah Breeden for pointing out build issues

   Every member of the Gnoga e-mail list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnoga-list)

   Anyone else I left out... it gets harder as the list gets longer to remember all that have contributed.


A bit about the word Gnoga :)

Pronounced - n oh g ah

Acronym for - The GNU Omnificent Gui for Ada
              (Omnificent =  unlimited in creative power)

Origin - The Hebrew word nogah (נגה)

Definition of Origin -
1) brightness; clearness
2) shine; shimmer; light
3) The planet Venus
4) One of the sons of King David (1 Chronicles 3:7)
5) In kabbalistic texts it is the balance point between good and evil that man's choice of physical deeds affects to transform to holiness or condemn to impurity. (Incidentally this is different than the Gnostic beliefs that matter is inherently evil, despite the similar name to Gnoga :)

For bonus - the numerical value of the Hebrew origin word nogah is 58 = Noah and so Gnoga should be the Ark to a new world of quality programming :)

http://gnoga.com

David Botton

Re: Thanks and Happy Holidays

[Hubert]

Congrats :)


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Re: Thanks and Happy Holidays

[Arie van Wingerden]

>Gnoga should be the Ark to a new world of quality programming

I like that ;-)

Wish you and the Ada community as a whole  a very happy and succesful new 
year!