Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Dan'l Miller writes:
> On Sunday, July 6, 2014 1:03:38 PM UTC-5, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Dan'l Miller writes:
>> > The path to Ada popularity: More special sauces for more niche markets
>> > that cause wounds in other languages' Achilles' heals to fester.
>>
>> Agreed.  Show us the code, then.  That's what Linus Torvalds keeps
>> saying, and he is right about that.
>> 
>> The folks at AdaCore have had a number of exceedingly brilliant ideas
>> and implemented them in Ada; now AWS and PolyORB are both killer
>> libraries that go way beyond any other language can offer.  If you have
>> a similar idea, please make it happen!  And if you don't, please
>> contribute to a project with similar potential.  One project with a lot
>> of potential is the SPARK-hardened DNS server, Ironsides; see
>> http://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/
>
> Hmmmm.  That sounds more like a "put up or shut up" shutdown of an
> individual who dares to speak than like "Hey, let's as a community
> brainstorm what an even better Ada world would look like", which is
> what was intended.

I'd rather be more positive: don't put up, don't shut up; do something
about it and then be loud about what you've done :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.