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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Why are Ada libraries so poor and disorganized?
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:22:53 -0600
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Date: 2013-03-03T13:22:53-06:00
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On 3/3/2013 4:59 AM, ferrariv65@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>

> The list of available libraries at AdaPower [1] is far from being a satisfactory toolkit.

fyi;

I have a list here also (but mainly for bindings) but I also
have no updated it for sometime:

http://12000.org/my_notes/ada/original_web_page.htm

Since Ada community is much smaller than others (python, R,
C++,etc... you can't expect the same number of libraries
for Ada as those).

I also think Ada is great language. But it has limited number of libraries
to make using it practical for certain applications (for me this
will be in area of scientific/graphics/system simulation etc..)

This is sad in a way, because I think Ada is the best when it
come to reusable software components and it has the best
package system out of any other language I've seen so far. It was
designed from the ground up for re-usability.

What Ada needs is CTAN and CRAN like package repository. But
again the Ada community is very small and doing something like
CRAN for Ada will require few Ada experts full time work on
this.

We need to have the US military adopt Ada again as the only
language to use for making rockets and weapons. This is the only
way to make Ada more popular as it was in the 80's.  (did you know
that Ada was #3 most popular language on the tiobe index in 1983?

So, any chance of this happening, someone needs to call the pentagon
and talk to someone there  :)

--Nasser