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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f4317a63a7ddc416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada at FOSDEM 2007... call for participants References: <1160131542.864404.148930@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <8764exysyr.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <8764exysyr.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:06:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1160424408 83.250.106.238 (Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:06:48 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:06:48 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6915 Date: 2006-10-09T20:06:48+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Jeffrey R. Carter writes: >> Ludovic Brenta wrote: >>> - a programming contest ("obfuscated Ada", perhaps? :) ) >> No, no, a trillion times no! >> >> Obfuscation and Ada are antithetical. Those who think otherwise should >> have their compilers taken away. > > You've just been caught on Candid Camera. > > (hint: hello? it's me!) If you want ideas, how about a contest for most useful new Ada library? I suppose additions to existing libraries could also be allowed. You could require that all entries be released under free licenses, and rate them in areas like code clarity, documentation and how needed they were. Just a thought that crossed my mind. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu