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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: periodicity
Date: 15 Mar 2002 17:53:47 +0100
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"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.
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