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: 103376,63d97587cee64bd1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Expression Parser Date: 1999/08/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 507541165 References: <379F1F9E.80B4CC27@utech.net> <7npml7$9iu$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <7o0as7$19po$1@news.gate.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, David Botton wrote: |I would like to point out that to my understanding there is a COM (aka |ActiveX) interface available for the Lego_Mindstorms product. | |Therefore you can use it from Ada by just running BindCOM |(http://www.adapower.com/com) on the COM object to produce a thick and thin |Ada binding to it. Sounds real nice. But points to another thing. Notice how beginners have a hard time with Ada? How often do we hear questions like "I am starting with Ada, how do I..."? Having a good platform for starting out is crucial for language success (in the hobby market at least), recall Turbo Pascal, BASICA/QBASIC etc etc. GNAT is great, but packaging it with mroe examples etc. esp. with easier to understand Windows examples, and perhaps a GUI builder will help greatly. Supplying a standard library of data structures and algorithms, with examples of use will also be a step in the right direction. Another idea is evloving something like PERL's CPAN. The Source Code Treasury seems like a very good starting point. This can be an intersting thesis work - infrastructure for reuse and collaboration of programming language resources on the Internet. Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web