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,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.248.10 with SMTP id yi10mr22467693pac.0.1419403399824; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:43:19 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.134.132 with SMTP id pk4mr3705obb.20.1419403399617; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:43:19 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no29515289igd.0!news-out.google.com!h6ni4819igv.0!nntp.google.com!h15no29515286igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:43:19 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Thanks and Happy Holidays From: David Botton Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:43:19 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24217 Date: 2014-12-23T22:43:19-08:00 List-Id: As we are in the heart of the EggGnog season and Gnoga is getting ready to = be released as 1.0 before year end, I wanted to wish a thank you and a happ= y holidays to all of you that have used your Gnoggins to offer great ideas,= comments or even take the plunge to start using Gnoga even before its firs= t release. I also wanted to publicly thank a few people :) First and foremost to Simon Wright for making a packaged FSF gcc/ada for= Mac I would not have even bothered with Ada again if not for it. (Sharewar= e ain't cool, especially when you can't even buy it if you wanted to) Pascal Obry and Dmitriy Anisimkov for AWS - AWS gave Gnoga its start eve= n if another implementation was used in the end to allow earlier gcc/ada ve= rsions, not sure I would have ever started on Gnoga with out your work, tha= nks! Dmitry Kazakov for implementing WebSockets after just asking if he would= ever would consider it and surprising me a few weeks later with it (and I = thought I never slept) and refining and tuning until it has become a solid = backbone for Gnoga and allowed for even more features to be added then orig= inally planned. A very special thanks to AdaCore for their contributions of code back to= the FSF for their work on gcc/ada (even if I'm on their "Naughty" list now= ;) Tony Gair for being the first one to jump on the Gnoga Ark publicly Jeff Carter for unearthing mines and driving the optimization of Gnoga's= communication layer with his mine detector game for Gnoga (http://gnoga.co= m:8081) Pascal Pignard for uncovering numerous bugs and sending lots of fixes Thomas L=C3=B8cke for doing lots of PR for Gnoga Anh Voh for starting the ball rolling to optimize CPU usage Duncan Sands for great advice on sockets Jacob Sparre Andersen, Isaac Stoddard and Chris Sparks for testing St=C3=A9phane Rivi=C3=A8re and Brian Drummond for early testing on Debia= n Jesse Jeremiah Breeden for pointing out build issues Every member of the Gnoga e-mail list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lis= ts/listinfo/gnoga-list) Anyone else I left out... it gets harder as the list gets longer to reme= mber all that have contributed. A bit about the word Gnoga :) Pronounced - n oh g ah Acronym for - The GNU Omnificent Gui for Ada (Omnificent =3D unlimited in creative power) Origin - The Hebrew word nogah (=D7=A0=D7=92=D7=94) Definition of Origin - 1) brightness; clearness 2) shine; shimmer; light 3) The planet Venus 4) One of the sons of King David (1 Chronicles 3:7) 5) In kabbalistic texts it is the balance point between good and evil that = man's choice of physical deeds affects to transform to holiness or condemn = to impurity. (Incidentally this is different than the Gnostic beliefs that = matter is inherently evil, despite the similar name to Gnoga :) For bonus - the numerical value of the Hebrew origin word nogah is 58 =3D N= oah and so Gnoga should be the Ark to a new world of quality programming :) http://gnoga.com David Botton