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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:03:38 +0200
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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/

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.