periodicity

["Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>]

Nice to see I can come back to comp.lang.ada after an absense of months,
and find exactly the same subjects still/again being discussed.

How about instead of focusing on the future of Ada, and how it compares
or contrasts with every language on the planet, more useful efforts
focus on the present of Ada, and making it more full of good libraries
and freeware tools so that it will _have_ a future.  It is sad to me
that as long as Ada has been around there still isn't enough substantive
discussion to have split off a diversity of forums(*) similar to the
more commercially successful and sought after programming languages.
This  is, after all, a language much older than Java, 2/3rds as old as
C, over 40% as old as Fortran by now; why is half the posting volume
still full of new language angst and defensiveness?

xanthian.

I.e., comp.lang.ada.*, where besides the choices easily researched from
the other language newsgroups, there really should be a
comp.lang.ada.gnat by now, probably with leaf groups of its own.



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