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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-26 05:57:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:56:24 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3bb1cfbd.18007503@news.demon.co.uk> References: <9onhgu$9h9$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BAF77E6.9BDE9102@adaworks.com> <9onvig$f6n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3bb05ee7.10496763@news.demon.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0109251818.5f6dd078@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1001509008 nnrp-13:999 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13386 Date: 2001-09-26T12:56:24+00:00 List-Id: On 25 Sep 2001 19:18:22 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote: >Well, as I have noted before, several people seem to put >in a lot of energy exhorting ACT to move in this direction >(which for many reasons we are not about to do), when perhaps people >should put their energy into producing such >a product. If you think there is this great commercial >opportunity here, by all means grab it and prosper. As I >pointed out in a similar post to Robert Leif, the nice >thing about Free Software is that you don't have to develop >an Ada compiler from scratch to do this, you can start with >GNAT. Where I used to work there was a boxed copy of GNAT with a couple of manuals. As far as I was aware, this was provided to the company as part of a support contract. All I'm suggesting is making this, or perhaps a cut-down version of this, available to hobbyists at a suitable price. Is that so difficult? Ultimately you seem to have the product, or something very similar, that can be shipped in the format I'm suggesting, it's just a matter of making it available! John