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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-17 09:45:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use") References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> <3FB8B9BC.5040505@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:31:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1069090248 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:30:48 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:30:48 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2579 Date: 2003-11-17T12:31:24-05:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:06, Marin David Condic wrote: > >>... "Ada is now aiming at being The New >>Fortran for mathematical programming..." > > I like that. I seem to remember that there was a PhD thesis with a lot > of math done in Ada recently (but I lost the reference). I must restate > also this: Ada On The Desktop = *reliable* desktop tools. And the XML > train (Bob Leif championed). I also like the name change idea someone > had a while ago. Let me suggest these: Xania, Xantia. I'm not certain that FORTRAN has the correct associations for today ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg