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 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:57:47 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87k1su7nag.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po2la2qt.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in8buttb.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <3f7a7f76-c5eb-4cba-9051-6b5dfeeb906c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:57:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0bf9106b11a5aa59ef18b2d99eecd140"; logging-data="15306"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zuJfa+pC7ELLEnkJEgIgqcws8qjn9ilc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <3f7a7f76-c5eb-4cba-9051-6b5dfeeb906c@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha1:CJNDu1yVotKaTrre8RnnuuhjuWY= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51780 Date: 2018-04-29T09:57:47+02:00 List-Id: On 04/29/2018 02:39 AM, patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote: > > In fact is there not fewer and fewer Ada libraries each year? Sure there are new ones but it seems to me that the old ones are becoming more and more stale. S/W doesn't become stale. If a library is complete, correct, and reliable, why should it ever be modified again? -- Jeff Carter "Ditto, you provincial putz?" Blazing Saddles 86