Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?

[bwalker@marlin.nosc.mil (Beth Walker)]

Mike Feldman writes:

>With some investment in their Mac system, and some nicely targeted
>advertising of it, I'll bet they could make it more popular than it is.
>They have the market all to themselves; I think they are not really
>exploiting it. Mac fans: can we make them hear us?

I hope so.  One of the things I really would like to see is a more
"Mac-like" interface along the lines of "Think-Ada".  The other
biggie on my wish list is for the Ada code to be compatible with
the GUI generator applications.

My reasons for this is that, when I write Ada code on my Mac, it is
for my own use, rather than for work.  That being the case, easier
and quicker (coding wise, not compiler speed wise) are two of my
main drivers.  If I can use C and an interface builder and take one
week as opposed to using Ada and hand-coding the interface (or 
having to use an un-Mac-like Ascii interface), I will use C.  If 
the time & effort are about equal, and the result is the same, I
would much rather use Ada.  Currently, I am being forced into the
C camp if I want a Mac-like interface, simply because of a dearth
of tools.