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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-06 07:53:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? New language competition? (long) References: <3E148004.5000408@cogeco.ca> <3E15CF31.1020900@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:53:07 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1041868399 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:53:19 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:53:19 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32615 Date: 2003-01-06T10:53:07-05:00 List-Id: > sway someone away from what they already use. Also, I've never liked Ada > bindings to C libraries because while it is technically possible, itr always > feels like an unnatural act and demands that the Ada developer think like a > C programmer. It would be better if Ada could go down its own path and do Like we did with POSIX--declared _one_ exception, and after it's raised you examine a global variable to find out what actually happened. I see your point about "leapfrogging the competition" _but_ anything new has to actually be not only new but self-contained. If you make a new web server, it still has to interoperate with most of the things other webservers work with, or it won't get used. And it isn't being used, is it? Sure, by Ada fans, but that's not the point. How about TopGraph'X - is it a better X-server? How many of them have been installed compared to the number of X-servers in (the) other language(s)? If they're better and they do interoperate, why are they not being used? Anonymity?