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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:29:01 +0200
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* Paul Rubin:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>> The number I heard was at least 10x higher than single-seat licenses of
>>> competing C/C++ and Forth products that I know of.
>> But these products have unbundled support, and you pay only for
>> software licenses, right?  So the comparison isn't really fair.
>
> The other products do have good support, though I don't know how to
> compare it with Adacore support, which sounds very high end.

Can you name a few examples?  I have no idea what kind of tools people
use in the embedded world, and what the support and licensing
agreements are like.