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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/14
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Bill Keen writes:

"If they'd given away free Ada compilers with every Unix box sold things
 might have developed on different lines. These days we can use GNAT for
 free, but not for commercial work. Customers tend to demand a validation
 certificate, and validated compilers still tend to cost a lot more than
 the competition."

Wow, so many mistakes in so few words!

If customers "demand a validation certificate" why would they want to use
another language where the compilers are not validated? So this makes no
diff. to language choice.

...and then the really funny...

	'we can't use GNAT for commercial work'

Chortle, chortle. Too many beers Bill? :-) (really either at best 
total ignorance of the GNU license, at worst idealogically driven fibs).

...and then validated compilers (e.g. the free GNAT compiler) cost more
than the competition. If this is true, Bill, could you tell me who the
competition is? They obviously pay me to use their compiler! :-)


Dale