From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:34:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> <7xeh8fxahu.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net RDbPpf5Ybh1RNznG9jmibA+1G2nwbZEYBZHk/3IBZDS4eMeJ3O Cancel-Lock: sha1:/x0bYxYX3T7BU7NcGaRrDLGS7SU= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Thread-Index: Ac64+JAjOzmABUmUDkeJeBuYPgiDqg== X-Original-Bytes: 1833 Date: 2013-09-24T08:34:55+01:00 List-Id: On 24/09/2013 08:05, in article l1rdj8$uge$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Bill Richards" wrote: > We don't use it where I work although I've used the so-called gcc-ada for > some personal projects. I'm well aware where it comes from. I paid for > it. And so did anyone else who was paying U.S. income tax when NYU received > the federal grant to develop it. It's a neat trick that somebody was able to > turn a federally-funded educational software development project into a > private, for-profit business. Hint: the code was not GPL until after 3.15p. And you call that communist? It's in the best traditions of pork-barrel capaitalism, isn't it? (BTW my tongue *is* in my cheek.) -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;