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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:29:09 -0600
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"Pascal Obry" <pascal@obry.net> wrote in message 
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> Le 01/03/2011 19:03, Hyman Rosen a �crit :
>> On 3/1/2011 10:40 AM, Julian Leyh wrote:
>>> Javascript is not necessary for browsing the web. At least not for
>>> basic browsing. If you have that finished, you may consider adding
>>> Javascript. Until then it should be lower priority.
>>
>> Necessary for whom? Unless you wish to restrict use of your browser
>> to other Ada aficionados who will admire it for the source language
>> in which it's written, I believe you would quickly discover that
>> Javascript is, indeed, necessary. And you will discover what happens
>> to developers who say "if we don't have it you don't need it".
>
> I fully agree with that. Without Javascript you cannot use a single Web 
> 2.0 (Ajax based) site on the Web.

I personally think that's an advantage. The only programs I want to be 
running on my computer are written in Ada. (Not a practical possibility at 
the moment, sadly.)

But I do agree with Hyman about Android apps. If I had a good idea, I'd 
probably be doing that right now...

                             Randy.