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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 08:55:01 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: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> <3B490751.38523577@worldnet.att.net> <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: is ada dead? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:54:57 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:54:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9679 Date: 2001-07-09T15:54:57+00:00 List-Id: In article <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >what is the "right" decision WRT languages. His techno-dweebs say "Java is >the hip thing!" and he's got to believe them, so migration is made that way. > >IMHO, if we want to sell Ada, it has to be from that grass-roots level. Get I see two possible ways to increase Ada's "hipness". One would be a massive marketing campaign, like Sun did for Java. I don't think anyone in the Ada community has that kind of dough to throw around. The other is to start developing lots of "cool" stuff with it. *That*, I think we can do. Right now the best example of this that I know of is GVD (http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/ ), but perhaps I'm a werido for thinking debuggers are cool. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com