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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:

: I believe that Ada has enough going for it right now to make it worth 
: while and that it is worth taking some kind of bold, new, exciting 
: action to try to save it from a slow consignment to the dustbin of history.

(Last time I looked I had no difficulty in finding Rational Apex
at IBM. This experience has been different from previous experiences.)

 

: I just don't think that random, 
: uncoordinated, volunteer, freeware without any official sanction or 
: direction or strategy is going to happen in a way that stands a chance 
: of succeeding.

I think Charles is an example project that has been started this way,
though I can't speak for Matt. (And it is not without coordination.)
AI 302 has now a reference implementation in the freeware CVS repository
at tigris.org. Can there be a more official sanction of a volunteer
effort(?) than by the ARG?

It might help to follow Matt's work, and provide some input by
looking at a future Ada standard library and using it in its
current incarnations to see how/whether it works. It is now the time
to make improvements and corrections.