Re: periodicity

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> writes:

> Nice to see I can come back to comp.lang.ada after an absense of months,
> and find exactly the same subjects still/again being discussed.
> 
> How about instead of focusing on the future of Ada, and how it compares
> or contrasts with every language on the planet, more useful efforts
> focus on the present of Ada, and making it more full of good libraries
> and freeware tools so that it will _have_ a future.  

Good point, what do you have to propose as component, library... ?

> It is sad to me that as long as Ada has been around there still isn't enough
> substantive discussion to have split off a diversity of forums(*) similar to
> the more commercially successful and sought after programming languages.
> This  is, after all, a language much older than Java, 2/3rds as old as
> C, over 40% as old as Fortran by now; why is half the posting volume
> still full of new language angst and defensiveness?

And the kind of post you just made which will certainly be a long thread :)

Pascal.

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