From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!epJzlJsZWlp1WuFmYLlBpQ.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MS going to rust (and Linux too) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:31:38 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="35694"; posting-host="epJzlJsZWlp1WuFmYLlBpQ.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.13.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64392 List-Id: On 2022-09-24 13:41, G.B. wrote: > Write a really good driver for Linux using Ada 2012 and do not use > capital letters in the source text, at least where Linux doesn't. > Be silent about the language. Can an Adaist do that, to save the > language? The song remains same. No, Python need not to have Linux drivers in order to be hugely popular, like the Herpes virus need not to be... And it is not about Ada. It is about a potentially turning point as the SW developing process hits certain limits one ignored before. Selling hot air is a very respectable and profitable activity, but in this case the reality begin showing its ugly bigotry face. Though Ada could provide some answers, it is not in the game anyway. Nevertheless, things become interesting... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de