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,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-15 08:53:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: periodicity Date: 15 Mar 2002 17:53:47 +0100 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-103-1-2-247.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 1016211229 29671 217.128.15.247 (15 Mar 2002 16:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Mar 2002 16:53:49 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.90 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21296 Date: 2002-03-15T16:53:49+00:00 List-Id: "Kent Paul Dolan" 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"