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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Jul 28, 3:01=A0pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> fft1976 wrote:
> > Ada is also 2x slower [than C], but less suitable for your purposes (ve=
rbose,
> > less memory safe than OCaml, free compilers produce GPL-only code)
>
> Correction: the Ada run-time library from GCC (from the Free Software
> Foundation) is licensed under GPLv3 with run-time linking exception,
> so does not cause the executables to be under GPL. =A0But that wasn't
> the OP's concern, anyway.

I've read somewhere that the quality of those FSF Ada tools/libraries
is not as good (if it were, what would keep the commercial vendors in
business?)