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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border1.nntp.hkg.giganews.com!news.netfront.net!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:41:54 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87d2dip94t.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> <3889b2f4-b7c4-4fb0-9f37-6fc56400b1d7@googlegroups.com> <87wqbqxt39.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="67659461a8050b2466b4df60ed2de4a2"; logging-data="4471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QxZUGxaG8Ulnl48cVFIRj" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rDWU82DtGg+VVAc1zHzBYHfhhrs= sha1:mDcl9OkgCB+9Xbkh3nycIjzCMf8= Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187402 Date: 2014-07-06T21:41:54+02:00 List-Id: 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.