Re: Anybody in US using ADA ?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

But this is exactly my point. Lots of contemporary languages *already*
provide extensive libraries to give the developer leverage and Ada *can't*
compete with that until it provides some libraries of its own. Waiting for
the standards committee to include it in the ARM is just too long a cycle
and poses other problems WRT validation, etc. Some less formal mechanism
should be developed that can get some libraries attached to Ada *quickly*
because every day that goes by, Ada is not adopted for some new development
because someone can get more leverage from Ruby, Python, Perl, Whatever,
that contains much more extensive libraries.

Note that I don't think libraries would cure everything - just provide a
good start. They are a necessary, but not sufficient condition. Ada still
ought to leapfrog other languages by providing something above and beyond
what they do if it hopes to gain adoption by those not already using it.

MDC
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> But Ruby, Python and Perl provide extensive _cross-platform_
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> How is Ada going to compete with that ?
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