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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1169763694 12.201.97.213 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:21:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:21:34 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:21:34 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8561 Date: 2007-01-25T22:21:34+00:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > > The point is that neither CLAW nor GWindows were included in the Ada > standard, and it is a good thing. And promoting Ada for Windows > programming in an Ada conference is good, but that won't make that > language a lot more popular: you have to make promotion outside the > insider circle... I think I may have been misunderstood. I wasn't talking about Ada 95 including a standard library for MS Windows; I was talking about a portable standard windowing library. On MS Windows platforms, that library would target MS Windows. > I'm afraid you read a bit too quickly: I discussed about finding a > (_good_) and (cheap or free) compiler in 1995. GNAT needed a few years > to become really good, IHMO. Janus Ada was, and I'm sure still is, a good compiler. I used it for many years after winning a copy at the Tri-Ada programming contest. -- Jeff Carter "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish." Bananas 28