Re: Will the World ever see something beyond GNAT 3.15p?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Bernd Specht wrote:

> Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> wrote in
> news:4244894.mjszBdT2aV@linux1.krischik.com:
> 
>> Bernd Specht wrote:
>> 
>>> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in
>>> news:cs5jj0$mrp$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de:
>>> 
>>>> You'd have to change professors, or history, and fashion, perhaps
>>>> write a killer application in Ada (maybe not a killing application,
>>>> which could be considered less popular :-) Like:
>>>> "MySQL is currently being rewritten in Ada 2005".
>>> 
>>> Georg,
>>> 
>>> this exactly the problem: everyone here seems to know what "must be
>>> done", but - nobody *does*!
>>> 
>>> I've read many (really much) threads here were people wrote "one must
>>> do ...", but never found one who *did*.
>> 
>> You are unfair. I can't copy the content of my webside
>> (http://www.ada.krischik.com) into every post just to show what I am
>> doing!
> 
> Sure, thats correct. But, in fact, your software is not well know to a
> broad public, isn't it?

True. Alltrue sarDO is a lot more usefull then sed. But then any commandline
text editor is not for the broad public.

> Thats the problem. To make ada more popular, we 
> would need more software that is known to the people (like the DB
> mentioned by George).

Yes. That is true. I belive that GNAVI would be good. You need the
foundation (develoment tools) first. Of corse GNAVI with integrated DB
would be even better.

The first step of the Ada comunity should be to give up on our tiny pet
project and intergrate them into something larger wich then has the power
to create those great applications.

>> And I don't think you want me to either, do you?
> 
> No, not really. BTW, as far as I see, your projects are all GNAT related,
> this will not make it interessting for people *outside* the Ada-community.

I have done lots of work with "Export (C," as well. They are just not
integated into main AdaCL.

Martin

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