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From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:45:04 GMT
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:16:41 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
wrote:

>Gavin Small wrote:
>> 
>> Now all I need is a compiler? or interpreter? (pref. free)
>
>None. Ada is used by software engineers, not programmers.
>
>One free Ada compiler is GNAT, available from
>
>ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/
>
>The most recent free version is 3.14p. Other vendors supply free
>evaluation/student versions of their compilers, also.

As you would know if you'd bothered to carry out a search on Google
groups. See
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=free%20compiler&as_ugroup=comp.lang.ada&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2002&hl=en