From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Laser printing from ADA (Windows)
Date: 1998/10/28
Date: 1998-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.981028152032.13344B-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: asmang-2810980804270001@192.168.0.22
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Arun Mangalam wrote:
> I think this elitist view that Tom and many other Ada-users have is what
> cut short Ada's life early on. Making everything public domain (in which
> you can and probably should contribute) is one of the reasons other
> languages such as C and C++ have taken off.
I agree with you here a 100%.
> As of now, I'm using C (which is making me gradually sick of).I
> particularly like Ada and as a hobbyist I'd like to see more experimental
> and useful code out there. Of course, when I am more experienced I will
> most definitely contribute. In fact, I think this is gradually happening
> with new Linux-style development occurring for Ada and all the excellent
> available software contributed by the U.S. government. ;)
Yes. One of the nice things is to see how much Ada code is available right
now for public use. It also helps you practive "reuse" instead of just
preaching for it.
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-28 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-23 0:00 Laser printing from ADA (Windows) Ehud Lamm
1998-10-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arun Mangalam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arun Mangalam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-24 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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