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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us?
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 02:44:08 +0600
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In article <mailman.994606630.15710.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Michael
Erdmann" <michael.erdmann@snafu.de> wrote:


> If you look as the open source market which is mainly driven by the
> commonly available operating system (e.g Linux) you will find that C,
> C++ and a lot of other lagnuages are mutch more dominant then Ada.
> Typical for this situation is e.g. the fact that most of the Linux
> distributions claim to support Ada, but the compiler is in fact  NOT
> part of the distribution.

FWIW, recent versions of Red Hat Linux include both GNAT and GtkAda on
the Powertools disk.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas