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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 07:22:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <87wv4r1uy5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <+uc0vOZmzK9b@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107291409.6538ad64@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:22:02 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:22:02 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10748 Date: 2001-07-30T14:22:02+00:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0107291409.6538ad64@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar says... >Take two possible scenarios ... > >1. You write something in Ada, and distribute the resulting binary >as freeware (as previously noted in this thread, freeware typically >refers to binaries distributed free). What possible value can this >have in promoting Ada? None as far as I can see. There might be some small value if you let it be known that it was written in Ada. I find a shocking amount of people out there with rather bizzare ideas of what can't be done using Ada. Hopefully widespread use of Ada software like GVD will slowly reduce the ignorance and prejudice. But I still have to agree that its worlds better to provide sources for users to actually play with. Most self-taught programmers started by tinkering with existing code. This is also a good way to get experienced programmers (who may need to tweek the code somewhat) exposed to Ada. The more Ada sources we make available, the more new Ada programmers we will see. Hopefully in time some of them will contribute back too. We really need to get some kind of snowball effect going, and this is the best way I can see to do it. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com