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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:06 -0500
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Date: 2012-02-04T18:27:06-05:00
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Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:24:27 -0800 (PST)
> Erich <john@peppermind.com> wrote:
>> 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. :(
>
> You could buy Janus/Ada Personal edition with Claw from
> RR Software for $295. (http://www.rrsoftware.com/)
>
> It is only for Windows, but shouldn't matter that much since Linux
> people don't pay for software anyway and Apple wants everything on OS X
> to be coded in Objective-C. ;)

You left out the Android market. Which is Linux way down underneath, but
most people don't care about that.

I tried to import the Android GUI into Ada, but GnatJVM isn't quite up
to that, and AdaCore doesn't see enough market to support fixing it.

So you are stuck with the free Java GUI.

> As a bonus, you can make your code open, since not that many has
> Janus/Ada and CLAW and those who have most likely are not interested
> in forking your project and making money for themselves.

That's a nice angle :). I can just see an add for CLAW:

    Keep your software safe! Use our totally obscure system to compile
    it!

:)

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-- Stephe