Re: memory management and productivity

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Russ writes:
> Part of the problem, as I see it, is that open-source developers now
> expect their compiler to be free -- as in beer. So do students. That
> is a real dilemma for compiler vendors, of course, and I don't envy
> them.
>
> But now that the Ada->JVM compilers have been determined to be
> commercially unviable, is it conceivable that they could be
> open-sourced and made available for free -- as in beer *and* speech?
>
> Why waste all the effort that went into them? Perhaps a free
> Ada->JVM compiler with robust bindings to the Java class libraries
> might be a key to a revival of Ada. Then again, maybe not. But if
> not, the prospects for a revival of Ada seem rather bleak.

JGNAT is free.  Anyone interested can get it at no cost, use it for
any purpose they wish, change it, and redistribute it along with their
changes.  So, nothing is lost :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.