Introduction

[alexander@xn--junivrs-e1a.com]

Hello all,

I must introduce myself.

A few months ago I got back into Ada. And I've got big plans. My logic won't allow me to speak of it, but the JD is telling me otherwise.

First and foremost, I am quite young in comparison to some of you. I'm 20; although I'd rather say I'm soon to be 21. In Sweden we get to start buying alcohol at the age of 20. Thank God. (To be fair, my mother usually has that handled for me.)

I've been programming for 11 years. The first seven years, I reinvented the wheel for the love of programming, over and over again, but from that time I only ever reinvented the wheel when it's a square. What I'm trying to say is that a lot of people here know a lot more about Ada than I do; I never went to school for this. When it comes to programming, I know as much about the advanced things as I do about the basic things. This community is what I hope will change that.

Ada is a beautiful language. Rather than writing a short story, you're writing a novel. And through writing a novel you're able to express yourself in various ways, without having to cut your journey short because of some God forsaken lava monster. Don't ask me about that. Tomorrow I won't remember a thing about it. I'm starting to run out of JD. Oh, wait, there's another flask right over there. It's possible I love Ada because it's different from anything I've seen before; I wasn't around for the development of the Pascal family. It's also possible, through Ada, I get to relive the days of old before I was born; a time I'd love to having experienced.

Don't you dare say she's just another crush. What do you want from me? Oh alright... I got her pregnant, so I don't have much of a choice in the matter.

I'm going to change the way people look at Ada. I'm going to make it big. "No, don't tell them that, drunk self." It's too late, backspace stopped working two paragraphs ago. I have young-person ideas that are going to change the way people look at Ada. I'm going to make it big. I'm going to make it each new developer's go-to language. And we're going to make any licensing you want completely free; even if that means having to rewrite the whole compiler from scratch.

We're going to change the world together. Let's make Ada ours. Let's make it the language people speak of next time someone makes a game as successful as Minecraft! Even though my drunken self is telling me to, I don't think I should start talking about my relationship with my father. I told you about the backspace thing. Besides, isn't everyone at least slightly inebriated on Friday evenings?

All people on here; young and old: I look up to you. But watch out, I am going to be the greatest Ada programmer one day, if I so have to wait for you to be dead for me to take your throne.

I'd love to have someone from here to talk back and fourth about our projects.

Best regards,

Your Drunken Friend