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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compiler
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<6xTv7.11226$IY3.8207717@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com>...
>  What can be done to make it
> easy, instead of hard, for someone new to Ada to find a 
> compiler?

Seems to me that this is definitely a job for the ARA.
I will pass this post on  to them.