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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ea3f3c185df1b1c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!uucp.gnuu.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will the World ever see something beyond GNAT 3.15p? From: Bernd.Specht@gmx.com (Bernd Specht) References: Organization: No company Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/4.05.03 Date: 15 Jan 2005 21:33:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2005 22:33:55 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 11cdf7d8.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=R2dO7R6kT\bA>\Y32QN0_hQ5U85hF6f;djW\KbG]kaMhSE6H=g?m\gj@cCi>IPSd@kWEh14DWb8Dh47Fj:^L4_X`[]\olmB8:Bj X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7829 Date: 2005-01-15T22:33:55+01:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote in news:SfednedI4sPvQXvcRVn-iQ@megapath.net: > "Pascal Obry" wrote in message > news:ullax2nlm.fsf@obry.net... >> >> Bernd.Specht@gmx.com (Bernd Specht) writes: >> >> > 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" ;-)