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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d311338eabd7ca93 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.73.229 with SMTP id o5mr5549095pbv.7.1328296354547; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:12:34 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni256802pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!fi.sn.net!newsfeed1.tdcnet.fi!news.song.fi!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:11:56 +0200 From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects Message-Id: <20120203211156.cd5207d7c74f4617e1d96d89@iki.fi> References: <4f27e278$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <12716838.1333.1328020580723.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prhq14> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta3 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: NBL Networks Oy NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.30.184.161 X-Trace: 1328296558 news.nbl.fi 4370 217.30.184.161:35523 X-Complaints-To: abuse@nblnetworks.fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-02-03T21:11:56+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:24:27 -0800 (PST) Erich wrote: > By affordable I mean 100$ to 300$. I would love to use Ada for larger > standalone GUI applications but the main choices QtAda and GtkAda are > simply out of question for a hobby shareware developer like me. :( You could buy Janus/Ada Personal edition with Claw from RR Software for $295. (http://www.rrsoftware.com/) It is only for Windows, but shouldn't matter that much since Linux people don't pay for software anyway and Apple wants everything on OS X to be coded in Objective-C. ;) As a bonus, you can make your code open, since not that many has Janus/Ada and CLAW and those who have most likely are not interested in forking your project and making money for themselves. -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/