Re: Bye-bye Ada ?

["Rick Morneau" <ramnospamplease@eskimo.com>]

Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe in the meantime, I'll find the time to
> invent one of those "killer apps with Ada inside"
> that we keep talking about here.
>

I would have sent this to you privately, but I don't think that your
despammed email address will work.  :-)

I've been working on a project that you might find interesting, and
which I'm programming in Ada.  Over the past dozen-or-so years, I've
been developing an interlingua for use in machine translation.  Over the
past two years, I've written and tested the first draft of the Ada
software that translates from the interlingua to English, with extremely
good results.  In the process, I learned a lot and I'm now starting a
complete redesign of both the interlingua (should be done in about 1-2
weeks) and the software.

Since you're interested in languages, you may find this project
interesting.  Perhaps you'd be interested in writing a program to
translate from the interlingua to Spanish, or even a much more ambitious
project - from Spanish to the interlingua.

Information about the first version of the interlingua along with many
examples of machine translations can be found here:

    http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/Katanda/index.html
 or http://www.srv.net/~ram/Katanda/index.html

If you're interested, please feel free to contact me at ram at eskimo
dot com.

By the way, this project is a (very serious!) hobby of mine, but I'm
retired, so I have lots of time to work on it  :-)


Regards,

Rick