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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-21 20:09:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 03:09:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.176.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1061521778 162.84.176.54 (Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:09:38 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:09:38 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41779 Date: 2003-08-22T03:09:38+00:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > I am very interested in doing applications myself. The problem is that > I want to do them strictly in Ada95, for all the reasons we know and > love. So right now, my time is spent building up a series of important > language bindings, one of which is APQ. Thereby demonstrating exactly the problem that Ernie Ball was talking about - programmers like to do programmer things, and that's what they'll do unless they're paid to do otherwise. Also, programmers know how to do programmer things, but not necessarily other things. And the people who know how to do the other things aren't necessarily programmers. That's why you don't get much free software in non-programmer areas.