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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada lacks support greatly
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:28:31 +0100
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* Rico Secada:

> I think that is the main problem with Ada nowadays. It lacks proper
> support on multiple platforms. Unless something is going to be done
> about this, it will never reach a wider usage in the Open Source
> community.

I don't think portability is a major concern for open source projects.
If it runs on GNU/Linux (i386 and maybe amd64), it's usually good
enough.

It's generally very hard to tell what makes a project successful.  I
used to think that the cathedral-like development style favored by
AdaCore was part of the problem, but there still are some similarly
structured projects which have got quite a following.