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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460818707 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 922814520 nnrp-04:6782 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:38:11 -0500, Steve Quinlan wrote: >Aidan Skinner wrote: > >> On 27 Mar 1999 10:45:06 -0800, west@nospam wrote: >> >> >Second, Java comes with packages and API's to do almost anything >> >> I'm working on these for Ada. >But, you are only working on a subset, the work you are doing is not part of At the moment yes, but hopefully it'll expand to the point where there's most of the useful/relevant bits. >compiler with support, and what is there is only advertised as working on Linu No, but if people want suppourt contracts for it, then they could always talk to me. ;) >I know, they SHOULD work with little modification elsewhere. Great for freewar Currently all of Gliba.* should compile cleanly on any OS where there's an Ada compiler. Any Linux specific portions will almost inevitably be those using Florist, so even then porting them will be a case of having a version of Florist with (at least) the necessary bits working. >users, bad for what we was being talked about here -- level of penetration of >Ada in the general commercial marketplace. Depends, the copyright Gliba is under means that other people can provide commercial suppourt if they want it too, and any body can use the librarys in their propreity apps without problems. >The very fact that Java is so new, yet has all these great libraries and that Java has these librarys because Sun sat down and thought "what do we need to provide to ensure massive market penetration in a short time?" and then paid for people to develop them. Ada hasn't, AFAIK, ever been concertedly marketed like this or even had the level of financial backing that Java has had since it's launch. >I think what you are doing is good, but to trumpet it as an "equalizer" betwee >Ada and Java in terms of library funtionality is a bit much. Hey, it might work. ;) - Aidan -- "Every time I see her I want to geek..." "I say geek. If she runs then it was never meant to be. But if you talk about routers, TCP/IP and programming and she stays, she's yours until the counter flips"