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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp20-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org References: <1169597572.530180.35780@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1169597572.530180.35780@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>; from "JPWoodruff@gmail.com" at 23 Jan 2007 16:12:52 -0800 Organization: 100 From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:01:38 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.45 MSDOS] Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.17.134 NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2007 02:05:01 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1169687101 news-4.free.fr 31387 88.191.14.223:36210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8527 Date: 2007-01-25T02:05:01+01:00 JPWoodruff wrote: > classes of smart young >teenagers have had easy access to computers and amateur tools, and >have honed their skills at what most of them called "hacking". They >learned to reason in low levels of abstraction. They spent a lot of >time in thread-of-execution debugging. Well, thread-of-execution is an extremely powerful abstraction, which appears both as high-level and as low-level one. And thread-of-execution debugging richly furnishes this abstraction with emotionally colored and socially sharable practical cases. No wonder that it attracts some fraction of smart young teenagers. > One way is to want to write interesting essays in the form of executable >programs. Ada is one of the finest tools for this task - at least as >far as our kind of program is concerned. The problem with this way is that it is hard to find a publishable subject, which has sufficient potential of interest for "smart young teenagers" and at the same time clearly demonstrates the strengths of Ada language. It is because Ada language isn't adapted well for vague outlining of possibilities and opportunities. Its main strengths are in expression of very real and actual things, which, if are interesting, unfortunately almost always are parts (or contain elements of or somehow connected with) military/commercial/trade secrets.