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Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> 	The GPL curse applies to small independent developers seeking to
> produce generally marketable products -- the next Quicken, or
> VersaCheck, for example... Given the prohibitive cost of obtaining a
> closed-distribution capability for GNAT, they might easily chose to
> substitute some other language -- M$ C++ compiler without the
> VisualStudio environment appears to be available for the download; Sun's
> Java seems to be behind a number of applications...

And GNAT is hardly the only low-cost compiler for those targets.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"People called Romanes, they go the house?"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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