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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a0c:910c:: with SMTP id q12mr13244474qvq.22.1591983393996; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:36:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:4e0d:: with SMTP id c13mr59533oib.30.1591983393620; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:36:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.114.128.24; posting-account=MRPdDAoAAADUJmZVjnYaoafXFMadSeY1 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.114.128.24 References: <6bd5d971-6101-4e9e-aac3-7c5c2a8390abo@googlegroups.com> <53c1f49f-bbf0-4cac-85a2-b790f282b279o@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <16a8fd0e-6307-44dc-b2ff-dd0b220f332bo@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code From: Olivier Henley Injection-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:36:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59065 Date: 2020-06-12T10:36:33-07:00 List-Id: > I haven't had any requests so far to do so. You are the first one. I will= publish it together with the next forecast update, and post a note in this= thread. That is great news. I do no know what holds you up from publishing without = anyone asking but I think you should always do so regardless:=20 a) You never know who could run into it and be interested, be inspired, etc= . b) For any code quality, there is no reason to be reluctant or postpone a p= ublic share IMO. I have seen countless horrors on GitHub and I would say mo= re than 50% of repos do not even compile. Its a jungle out there and those = who have time to police for reputation are ... somehow toxic. When code is = in bad shape, I write 'Status : WIP'. It should speak for itself. > would cater to larger public than a piece of software needed download and= installation. This is true but as you said, it 'draws the attention of very few people' i= n proportion to let say something like ... Facebook.=20 In that regard, I think the attention of concerned people would be easier t= o catch using an encompassing tool, even if needed to be downloaded, than e= soteric cmd switches, a constant back and forth with Excel, and a collectio= n of screenshots lying in badly named folders (nothing personal really). I = inspected the Fergusson model repo this morning and that is exactly what th= ey are juggling with; mastering complexity implies framing it on many dimen= sions; UX is the most overlooked yet the most successful paradigm. =20 Finally, to keep Qt in the loop let alone for its charting capabilities, th= ere are ways to render it inside a web page. I do not know if it holds true= in an Ada context but I'll keep digging.=20 Ok, let us know when your code is online. Thx.