Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

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.