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

[Bernd.Specht@gmx.com (Bernd Specht)]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in
news:SfednedI4sPvQXvcRVn-iQ@megapath.net: 

> "Pascal Obry" <pascal@obry.net> wrote in message
> news:ullax2nlm.fsf@obry.net...
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>> Bernd.Specht@gmx.com (Bernd Specht) writes:
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>> > Well, but isn't this the speciallity of Ada? Always talk, but never
>> > do? If 
>>
>> And you are proposing what to change that ?
> 
> Talk some more, I'm sure. That's what news groups are about after all;
> they primarily suck up time that could be used to *do* something. For
> the people that are professional Ada developers, it probably sucks up
> most of their Ada time...
> 
> Some of us have been *do*ing for years. It hasn't helped, as far as I
> can tell.
> 
>                    Randy.
> 

The problem is *not* to use Ada for daily work, because this will not make 
Ada more visible. Less people know how the software for boing, airbus, iss 
is written. But - many people know e.g. Apache, CDrecord, Gimp, Linux and so  
on and they know that they are *not* written in Ada. 
So *doing* means not do commercial work, doing means popular, public 
programs. If there were a photoshop-clone for Linux written in Ada, or some 
good (really good) video editing software, maybe then people would recognize 
Ada. Or if Boing puts a sticker on their planes "powered by Ada" ;-)