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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no 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 Received: by 10.68.74.201 with SMTP id w9mr1187104pbv.0.1328320366185; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:52:46 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni257834pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!m24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:52:43 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <29b52aa8-d20a-4fa0-b9e2-a22b13670053@m24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> References: <4f27e278$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <12716838.1333.1328020580723.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prhq14> <20120203211156.cd5207d7c74f4617e1d96d89@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.230.151.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1328320365 20401 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2012 01:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.230.151.194; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-02-03T17:52:43-08:00 List-Id: On Feb 3, 1:11=A0pm, Tero Koskinen wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:24:27 -0800 (PST) > > Erich wrote: > > By affordable I mean 100$ 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/ +1 for Applied Security Through Obscurity. ;)