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From: "Ray Smith" <Ray.Smith@fujitsu.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Suitability for small Windows projects
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:20:23 +1100
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Thanks to everyone for responding.

http://www.adapower.com/  has lots of excellent info, should keep me busy
for a few weeks!

I'm so surprised Ada isn't mentioned in magazines, newspapers and web
development resource sites etc.
>From my limited reading Ada is at least a match for the popular
C++/Java/Visual Basic/Delphi environments but yet doesn't even get a
mention.

>I also stumbled across the 100 KB Hello World compiled by GNAT. I used to
> care about executable size, I do no more. Hardisk space is ridiculously
> cheap and if you deliver software, you burn it on CD anyways.

It's not really the hard disk space I'm worried about,
Producing "reasonably" small standalone executables has two benefits for me:
1.  Programs can be easily downloaded from the net.
2.  The smaller the executable size the less RAM resources it uses (in
general).

The "100 KB Hello World" I beleive is good.
It's the "1.4 MB Hello World" program in Visual Basic with a 1.36 MB runtime
file that I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks again,

Ray Smith