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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.43.94.71 with SMTP id bx7mr13547948icc.2.1404673407860; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:03:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.236.37 with SMTP id ur5mr124obc.19.1404673407742; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!uq10no2160363igb.0!news-out.google.com!bp9ni2744igb.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no2160354igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 12:03:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wqbqxt39.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.252.147.203; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.252.147.203 References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> <3889b2f4-b7c4-4fb0-9f37-6fc56400b1d7@googlegroups.com> <87wqbqxt39.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 19:03:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 2299 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1368154386 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20749 Date: 2014-07-06T12:03:27-07:00 List-Id: 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.