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Michael Bode wrote:
> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
> 
>> Frankly I 100% agree with Stephen. Ada gives a big advantage against the
>> concurrence, why not use it just for that. An better question to me
>> whould be : who is providing compilers, tools and support for Ada? Looks
>> like the Ada market is fine to me.
> 
> Wanted: affordable cross platform (i.e. Windows + Linux) Ada
> development system. No licensing restrictions for software produced
> with said development system.
> 
> My company will start selling diode lasers with a new touch panel HMI
> that was programmed in Ada later this year. It was fun to work on this
> project, but I have to use fairly old versions of the compiler & libs
> because newer ones are either too expensive or not viable because of
> licensing restrictions.
> 
Last time I checked it certainly did not seem like the Aonix tools were 
particularly expensive in small quantities.