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From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there any other forum for Ada?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:42:34 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2017-10-29T15:42:34-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f38d670-3e84-4faa-be5a-0019068e96be@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454a2aa4-89a6-4495-96cd-2e73df93f135@googlegroups.com>

On Sunday, 29 October 2017 19:42:30 UTC, tclwa...@gmail.com  wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I googled, and this is the only Ada forum that I found
> Is there any other active forum 

There is #Ada on Freenode.

> I would like to discuss, some ... non technical topics about Ada
> I am learning Ada out of curiosity, and while I doubt that I will ever
> use it at work
> 
> I still would like to learn more about its commercial license

You can use the FSF GNAT commercially for free.
 
> Should I really worry about Adacore and the commercial licensing cost? 

Nah, just avoid their GPL'd compiler version and their GPL'd libs in anything you do commercially.
 
> I would also like to ask about general stuff, like is there a roadmap for Ada, is there plans for Ada2020 for example, what are the new features planned for newer Ada releases?

There is an Ada Issues for 2012 database on which details amendments for 2020, including parallel loops and blocks.

> Anyway, is there a forum where I cant discuss these things without feeling guilty
> This forum, seems too technically focused, and I dont want to .. waste anyone's time 

Have you seen some of the posts on here? I wouldn't worry about that.

Luke.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-29 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-29 19:42 Is there any other forum for Ada? tclwarrior
2017-10-29 19:53 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-10-29 20:26 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-10-29 20:32   ` Andrew Shvets
2017-10-29 22:13   ` Simon Wright
2017-10-29 21:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2017-10-29 21:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-10-29 21:53 ` Paul Rubin
2017-10-29 22:42 ` Lucretia [this message]
2017-10-30  1:41   ` Andrew Shvets
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