Michael Feldman wrote: > One of the frustrations we all feel is that we are all full of > wonderful ideas for stuff Ada needs to increase is acceptance, > but few of us are able or willing to take the time to actually > do these things. > > Asking "the Ada community" to develop things is, in my opinion, > something of a copout; most often, it seems to mean "anyone but me.":-) Hey, I'd be happy to undertake the production of all these Ada utilities/bindings/etc. If arrangements were made to continue my annual salary I'd gladly work out of my downstairs office :-) Throw in the salary for my partner (wife :-) and you'd have a couple with 25+ years Ada programming experience cranking this stuff out. And naturally it would all be available under GPL! > One difference between the Ada "community" and others is that one > sees "I have developed and contributed..." much more in other > communities than in ours. To cite one example, the DJGPP (GCC/DOS) > community has an "announce" mailing list. Hardly a week goes by > without an announcement of a new contribution to the GCC/DOS > world, or a significant upgrade to an older version. > > Mike Feldman -- Marc A. Criley Chief Software Architect Lockheed Martin ATWCS [log in to unmask] (610) 354-7861