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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Current status of Ada?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:42:58 -0700
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Lou, your major complaint seems to be the price of GNAT Pro from
AdaCore. There is another compiler vendor called RR Software who
offers an Ada 95 compiler on Windows for a much lower price. Check it
out.

Also see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing for a
list of compilers available.

You will find that GCC supports Ada and allows you to distribute
proprietary software. At no cost.

HTH

PS. Do not hesitate to augment the wikibook with a link to this
newsgroup :-)

--
Ludovic Brenta.