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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects
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Date: 2012-02-02T04:45:40-05:00
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Erich <john@peppermind.com> writes:

> 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. :(

I don't follow; both of those are available in free versions, and can be
used for commercial software.

If you are asking for _support_, rather than just for the source code,
that is a different matter; support is expensive, and rightly so.

If you are asking for non-open-source commercial software, that is also
a different matter.

Can you be more precise about what your problem is?

What sort of software are you hoping to make money from, and why are
unable to use QtAda or GtkAda for that?

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-- Stephe