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On 1 f=E9v, 13:24, Erich <j...@peppermind.com> wrote:
> As a newbie who has started to appreciate Ada (after an initial
> painful learning phase) I'd say that Ada doesn't need another compiler
> but rather an *affordable* cross-platform GUI toolkit that can be used
> for the development of commercial software.
>
> By affordable I mean 100$ to 300$. I would love to use Ada for larger
> standalone GUI applications but the main choices QtAda and GtkAda are
> simply out of question for a hobby shareware developer like me. :(

If you want to program on Windows only, you have a nice toolkit here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnavi/
for 0$. You can make standalone executables (0 DLL!).
GWindows is used in freeware and business applications, so why not
shareware as well ?
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