Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon,

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Monday, July 21, 2014 7:01:20 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dan'l Miller" wrote in message:
> > There actually does exist a GUI library written entirely in Ada for Ada: 
> > Gnavi.
> 
> You misspelled "Claw". ;-) GNavi exists mainly because the authors didn't 
> like our design for Claw. Which has been a long-standing problem with Ada --  
> too many choices never quite finished, rather than one library that most 
> people use and extend.

Randy, you make it sound as though Gnavi is a fork of Claw or some other direct derivative work, by making the reference to misspelling (a rose by any other name is just a sweet).  Perhaps some of the developers of Gnavi were first Claw users, but it seems they simply designed a competitor rather than a derivative work.  Or was now-EULA-licensed Claw open source at one point in the past?

Conversely, point well taken that Claw doesn't get enough exposure either.  The more the merrier to reach critical mass for Ada.  Ada in its current state needs to advertise its accomplishments (e.g., libraries available written in Ada; titles of apps written in Ada; well-maintained actively-maintained thick Ada bindings to foreign libraries).  Ada in its future Ada202X state needs to facilitate more accomplishments easier (e.g., better interlanguage Conventions, such as to Lua, Python, Perl, Swift, Go, the low-hanging fruit in C++; increased usage of pre- & post-conditions for more declarative coding; aspect-oriented programming, such as merging ASIS into the compiler to make ASIS available at compile-time).