Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

sk wrote:

> > ... not differ fundamentally from corresponding part
> > of AdaPower (still most successful Ada-oriented website) ...
>
> Perhaps AdaIC would be a better comparison

I doubt it. AdaIC has somehow another purpose, I think... although there is
certainly substantial intersection.

> >http://adaic.com/site/index.html
>
> lot of dead/bad links though.

Not only dead/bad, but also improper ones. I just glanced there... better I
did not do that. In the list of national Ada organizations I discovered
Ada-Russia, to my surprise; I followed the link, and found simply website in
Russian. Yes, it is dedicated for Ada, and contains Ada-related materials and
links, but I found there no traces of any organization. Then I checked list
of associated organizations in Ada-Europe, and as I expected there are no
Ada Russia. So, this name is premature, at best. But this was not the worse:
on that site (pseudo- Ada Russia) I discovered new Ada textbook in Russian,
(not a translation, but presented as original writing) and glanced into it
too... again, better I did not do it. Well, as I feared (by past experience)
all symptoms are in place, beginning from the book title, which demonstrates
playing with words - this title may be read as slang form of "Ada programming"
or normal language form of "Hell programming". Then follows the substance of
the book with all usual terminological negligence; the highest achievement is,
perhaps, translation of the term "elaboration"... but I may be mistaken here -
I looked into the text about 5 minutes only, so there may be even greater
invention. Well, I understand - good intentions, as usual.



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia