Hi guys, I'm thinking about proposing a talk (or maybe workshop) focused on Ada. My idea is to present it as an old, stable and long-time-proven language that has most, if not all, features of those new fancy experimental languages that emerged in the recent years. I don't want the talk/workshop to be any comparison of languages, I'd just like to present many of the great things about Ada ranging from strong typing and safe syntax to memory allocation, generics, tasks and containers, hopefully incl. some new features like implicit dereferencing and getting and item at a given index. [1] In general I want it to be an appetizer and an invitation to join the Fedora-Ada community and this SIG.
[1] http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-123-implicit-dereferencing-in-ada...
What do you guys think? Is it worth it? Would you like such a talk (hopefully ending up on youtube)? And do you have any experience with the RHEL/Fedora community regarding Ada?
Thanks!
Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
I'm thinking about proposing a talk (or maybe workshop) focused on Ada. My idea is to present it as an old, stable and long-time-proven language that has most, if not all, features of those new fancy experimental languages that emerged in the recent years.
Honestly, there are *some* features that Ada doesn't have, so it wouldn't be right to present it as having *all* of the features of other languages. "Most" is probably true.
I don't want the talk/workshop to be any comparison of languages, I'd just like to present many of the great things about Ada ranging from strong typing and safe syntax to memory allocation, generics, tasks and containers, hopefully incl. some new features like implicit dereferencing and getting and item at a given index. [1] In general I want it to be an appetizer and an invitation to join the Fedora-Ada community and this SIG.
[1] http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-123-implicit-dereferencing-in-ada...
What do you guys think? Is it worth it? Would you like such a talk (hopefully ending up on youtube)?
I think it's a good idea. Anything that can open somebody's eyes to Ada ought to help. Do keep your expectations realistic though. You're not likely to convert the whole conference into Ada enthusiasts. :-)
And do you have any experience with the RHEL/Fedora community regarding Ada?
My experience is that few people in the Fedora community are interested in Ada and even fewer want to help with the packaging, but there is very little in the way of opposition against Ada. People aren't being hostile or trying to exclude Ada packages or anything like that. The community simply allows Ada tools and libraries to exist alongside all the other programming tools and libraries in Fedora.
Björn Persson
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