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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Is there another ada compiler
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:44:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a69cdc3-a758-4a3b-9a42-fc6726959959o@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rg99sd$5rh$1@dont-email.me>

> We should note, GNAT / Adacore were created on the backs of American 
> taxpayers via a grant to New York University. Unfortunately, the 
> taxpayers got the shaft and a profitable business was born to continue 
> the fun.

It's called public-private partnership ;-)
See Tesla or SpaceX for other examples. Is it so bad?
BTW, weren't most early Ada vendors essentially financed by the US DoD?

As a consolation, consider that the American taxpayers have become (at least for a while) minority contributors to the US budget...

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03  2:22 Is there another ada compiler gdotone
2020-08-03  7:54 ` gautier_niouzes
2020-08-03 13:51 ` Shark8
2020-08-03 14:29   ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-03 17:37     ` Micronian Coder
2020-08-03 18:40     ` Shark8
2020-08-03 18:50       ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-03 18:55       ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-03 15:18   ` nobody in particular
2020-08-03 21:44     ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
2020-08-04  0:23     ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-08-06  9:22 ` gdotone
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