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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: NRC Study Report
Date: 1996/11/04
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In article <96110212181443@psavax.pwfl.com>, "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM> writes:

>>        3.  Invest $15M/year for Ada infrastructure - or drop
>>                Ada requirement entirely;
>>
>     Are you sure that's enough? I think GNAT was one of the smartest
>     decisions ever made in promoting widespread use of Ada - make a
>     good quality compiler available free to anyone who wants it. If
>     DoD would drop a significant chunk of change into developing
>     support tools (targeted to at least a PC/Windows environment) and
>     again make them available in the same way GNAT is, (Oh. Yeah.
>     Spend a few bucks for *advertizing* that fact as well!) I think
>     we'd see a dramatic increase in Ada usage in many fields. Here's

Although GNAT funding was a good start, it is not necessarily the
case that more such funding is the best way to do it. Free market
competition might be better, especially if such tools are built
such that they can be used in civilian projects.

Larry Kilgallen