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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:38:35 +0100
Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net
Message-ID: <1420623515.2280.344.camel@obry.net>
References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad>
	 <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com>
	 <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
	 <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com>
	 <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
	 <d865c2cd-dd78-4dd9-8ca5-7526bc781faf@googlegroups.com>
	 <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
	 <bb6afd60-da67-4b0a-93ca-2921b985cc3e@googlegroups.com>
	 <m8ds96$po2$1@news.albasani.net>
	 <79f3eff7-2b45-40ae-af94-fa9a17426d82@googlegroups.com>
	 <87tx03rbr2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
	 <bb1b27f1-bd3f-4a36-b5c6-e9487d1cb67a@googlegroups.com>
	 <pq0rw.976861$JH1.101473@fx08.iad>
Reply-To: pascal@obry.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: mxtJ5056dp0udyOVtbMH6w.user.speranza.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2
Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24435
Date: 2015-01-07T10:38:35+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Le mardi 06 janvier 2015 =C3=A0 17:59 -0800, Hubert a =C3=A9crit :=20
> I should maybe say that I am one of these people who are looking into=20
> Ada. The reason is that I realize that the language has much more to=20
> offer than C++ and it seems programs are more stable due to the lack of=
=20
> pointer juggling.
> However, I am reluctant to commit more than some spare time to it and=20
> writing more than some stand alone tools because from my point it has an=
=20
> uncertain future.

This is just plain wrong. How can Ada have an uncertain future where all
the most challenged projects in the world are using it more and more and
there is two Open Source compilers, one GPL from AdaCore and non GPL
from FSF integrated into the GCC project.

--=20
  Pascal Obry /  Magny Les Hameaux (78)

  The best way to travel is by means of imagination

  http://v2p.fr.eu.org
  http://www.obry.net

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B