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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d311338eabd7ca93 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.74.201 with SMTP id w9mr1317851pbv.0.1328326986915; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:43:06 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: lh20ni258115pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anon@att.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <4f27e278$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <3d05273f-c117-4fdb-b707-0931d42f376e@j14g2000vba.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: anon@anon.org NNTP-Posting-Host: XUf0JamlwNzSswM9f6mlHw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Date: 2012-02-04T03:43:03+00:00 List-Id: What I was getting to with the single user concept is. Where are the businness or general public application written in Ada that the end user can buy at their local online software store. Also: Programmers do not want to spend their life re-writing code written in Ada. That is, every new language release requires 80% to 95% of the Ada code to be rewritten. Even the yearly release of Adacore's GNAT can have so many updates that it can cause a complete rewrite of an application even between language releases. And Ada is still concurrent but the programmer of today require multiple-thread and multiple cpu languages. Ada 2012 has some multiple-cpu controls but those type of features are still very limited. In truth, Ada 95 should of had been the first true multiple-thread and multiple cpu language. And until these two systems are fully functional and I would say even going beyond all other languages Ada programming will stay crippled to a limited number of concurrent applications. Then you have features that are included in other languages, but either not available or not maintain in Ada. Such as links for OS graphics and direct hardware devices such as USB ports. Yes, there are binding for SDL and openGL but are those current. And still most programmers would prefer Windows DirectX graphics, or Apple's graphics. As for Ada, a plus would be a common graphics package that the programmer could use to create an application on one system and then just compile for another system without modify the code. Yet, today no package exist! So, without these and other features added to Ada, no governmental tax or altered law will increase Ada compiler being sold. In <3d05273f-c117-4fdb-b707-0931d42f376e@j14g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, Gautier write-only writes: >On 31 jan, 16:56, a...@att.net wrote: >> You every head of ready-made projects >> >> The changes would only help the general population software aka ready to >> use, such as: accounting packages or other business related packages or >> educational learning software. >> >> Microsoft will get a boost, but for Ada or Linux nothing. Because Linux is >> still free for the most part. And Ada software, is too specific or >> design for a single user application. > >Are you assuming one cannot make a single-user application in Ada ? >_________________________ >Gautier's Ada programming >http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ada >NB: follow the above link for a valid e-mail address