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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,804404553c230a79 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.180.107.167 with SMTP id hd7mr17912wib.0.1349940722040; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni134268969wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.40.29.245.MISMATCH!novia!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: AdaTutor on the Web - done Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:13:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de D95QEdb/F+CI+vileiS2YwPup3Lc+3+QxQWymG7pB2snBm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120825 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-10-07T16:13:10+02:00 List-Id: On 10/07/2012 03:24 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 10/7/2012 3:38 AM, Simon Wright wrote: > >> >> (I don't understand the "fan page" aspect of FB, so maybe I have it >> wrong.) >> > > It seems these days if something does not have a 'fan page' at > facebook then it is not a cool thing. > > So Ada will become a cool language only when it has its own page at > facebook! Like for example C++ has > I think it is already a cool language but it deserves a bit more attention :-) My feeling is that the ada community seems to use outdated communication channels ... > https://www.facebook.com/cprogramming Well; not a realy good example; information density goes to zero; better look at the fb pages of large organisations ,,, https://www.facebook.com/NASA https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency In this way important events like releases of software, conferences etc can be put in the time line. > > --Nasser >