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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2318591037235d2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,c2318591037235d2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-14 21:11:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!129.8.168.41!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: periodicity Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 05:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.8.168.41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1016155892 10652 129.8.168.41 (Fri Mar 15 06:11:15 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 05:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=129.8.168.41; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1016155892 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/a382a7626f81f2efce1b56bbbb0f35ac.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21256 misc.misc:5729 Date: 2002-03-15T05:11:16+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG