Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum

[Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>]

6.7.2014 22:03, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> 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.
> 

My favorite form of this is "Shut up and Hack" by OpenBSD
(see http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#audio_extra51 ).

If you want someone to adopt Ada before 202x, you cannot
rely on discussion about upcoming features. Instead, make
other areas, like the available libraries, better.

Yours,
 Tero