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On 02.07.13 10:46, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> Vendors:
>>
>> I still wonder why not a single vendor sells a Ravenscar run-time
>> with compiler at a hobbyist price, without support.
>
> Why a hobbyist would even look at Ravenscar?

Doing great things with small things makes programmers proud:

1) People coming from C++ will be proud of having understood
the new concurrency building blocks like std::atomic. Similarly
for Java.

2) People coming from C are proud of having grasped
"small things" like the meaning of "int", or the way CAS
and semaphores will work. And of what *they* can do
with these. And now its in the new C!

3) Small and speedy is way cooooool.

So, ready-made simplicity of full Ada stinks. It is an insult
to those who have mastered the above three notions. It hinders
flexibility, you know.