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On 10/24/10 11:21 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:07:13 +0200, ramon_garcia <ramon.garcia.f@gmail.com> a écrit:

(Do others see normal paragraphs by ramon_garcia and very
long single lines (i.e., not paragraphs) in Yannick's response,
too?)

>> I don't have a problem for paying for using an Ada
>> tool.
> But we are in another area there : GPL efficiently killed little companies and standalone developers

First, I doubt that this was the GPL; some businesses might
have suffered from the GMGPL.

Care to mention a few numbers, or even company names if possible,
that were killed by GNAT alone?

As for existing companies offering compilers,  you have mentioned
RRSoftware, there are more Ada companies, some of them offer
compilers at quite the usual prices. You'll have to ask, though.

Note that even the Occasional Price Dumping Company sells Pro (i.e.
commercial use) editions of their tools at min $799, and wants >= $1,199
with MSDN subscription.


> The area of choices is narrow here.

Just to put compiler availability in perspective:

We may choose among C# compilers from ...
We may choose among Objective-C compilers from ...
We may choose Fortran compilers targeting ARM from ...
...