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

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

Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> wrote in
news:4244894.mjszBdT2aV@linux1.krischik.com: 

> Bernd Specht wrote:
> 
>> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in
>> news:cs5jj0$mrp$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de:
>> 
>>> You'd have to change professors, or history, and fashion, perhaps
>>> write a killer application in Ada (maybe not a killing application,
>>> which could be considered less popular :-) Like:
>>> "MySQL is currently being rewritten in Ada 2005".
>> 
>> Georg,
>> 
>> this exactly the problem: everyone here seems to know what "must be
>> done", but - nobody *does*! 
>> 
>> I've read many (really much) threads here were people wrote "one must
>> do ...", but never found one who *did*.
> 
> You are unfair. I can't copy the content of my webside
> (http://www.ada.krischik.com) into every post just to show what I am
> doing!

Sure, thats correct. But, in fact, your software is not well know to a broad 
public, isn't it? Thats the problem. To make ada more popular, we would need 
more software that is known to the people (like the DB mentioned by George).

> And I don't think you want me to either, do you?

No, not really. BTW, as far as I see, your projects are all GNAT related, 
this will not make it interessting for people *outside* the Ada-community.
 
> Martin

Bernd