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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-09 09:51:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!diablo.voicenet.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) References: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> <400BD4B5.6000307@noplace.com> <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <401118FD.701@noplace.com> <40126B5E.8050205@noplace.com> <99wTb.4905$bp1.159188@news20.bellglobal.com> <4024E5B1.6000708@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <4024E5B1.6000708@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:37:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1076348184 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:36:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:36:24 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5368 Date: 2004-02-09T12:37:17-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Unfortunately, the resistance typically "fades" in the form of "Its just > too hard for me to get my job done with Ada so I'll go switch to XYZ..." > I think Ada tends to suffer from the mindset of "If the world doesn't > want to fit into my software development theories, then so much the > worse for the world." Everyone wants to avoid making Ada a messy > hodgepodge of 'features' like one finds with C, but a little more focus > on practical help to the average developer out there might go a long way. > > MDC I couldn't agree more ;-) > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: >> The result of this discussion seems to suggest that most >> are resisting the idea, for different reasons. So >> be it. Maybe with time, resistance to the idea will fade >> as more people try to address the practical problems that >> Open Sourced projects face in Ada. One can hope ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk