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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:56:46 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <40CF734C.7020108@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1087347813 64202 212.85.156.195 (16 Jun 2004 01:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:03:33 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <40CF734C.7020108@noplace.com>; from Marin David Condic at Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:08:53 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1558 Date: 2004-06-16T04:56:46+04:00 Marin David Condic wrote: > Why does it have to be new? Why can't it simply be an innovative view on > something that already exists? Certainly that will be OK also. Just a little problem - where to get that innovative view? -:) And not just innovative, but also still not covered by some wild patent -;) . > Why not an "Office Suite" or an > accounting package or a photoshop package? It would be very easy to answer for that in Russian -:) , but my poor English severely limits me at this point. Well, I just can't imagine that anyone who had at least slight experience with those products will try to re-implement them for free (in any language, including Ada). The obvious problem there is in requirements: these kinds of products have particularly big and complex and worse of all - fuzzy - sets of requirements. With any innovative view you may succeed to satisfy major part of them - but far from all (inevitably, because you don't know them), and that will topple your product... if you aren't supported by some strong external source. > Mostly, it requires taking a > look at one of the hundreds or thousands of existing, successful > products that are out there and saying "I think it would be a whole lot > more effective or easier to use or otherwise better if only I were to > implement it *this* way..." Or even something that just marries up two > or more otherwise independent apps - like a Photoshop/Word > Processor/Accounting Pacakge (if you want to reinvent the Swiss Army Knife.) Brilliant business plan... but why Ada? - this is obviously for Java... or at least for C#/.NET,,, but still better for Java. > So what do you see on your computer that you wish was done a different way? Hm... a pen instead of the mouse (option)... a handheld or smartphone instead of the mouse (another option)... an expandable directory tree inside a folder (option) - sometimes I don't like to switch folders while browsing directories ... ability to change manually the order of items on the taskbar. Seems that there is nothing relevant to Ada among these wishes -:) Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia