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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b9027678f309105 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Laser printing from ADA (Windows) Date: 1998/10/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 405930250 References: <363376e7.127480@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <3633c188.19236172@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <3634aec6.547292@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> <714lbe$fh6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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