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From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson)
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Subject: Re: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition)
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Regarding Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition); jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) adds:
> I'd love to see AJPO drop a large parcel of unmarked bills on GNU's
> doorstep, ask for no project plan, no design reviews, no 2167A doc;
> just a working Ada compiler "sometime" that is freely available in
> source form.

Little though I like Ada, this would about the best single thing that
could happen to increase Ada usage in education and thus the number of
graduates familiar with the language.

I suspect that the worst thing about it from the viewpoint of the true
believers is that it implies that along with your Ada system you get
very comparable C++, Objective-C, Modula-3 and maybe an Eiffel-like
language (Sather).  People would really be able to compare a suite of
languages with a similar and pretty good implementation base.  It
seems unlikely that those who prefer that languages be selected by
government mandate would welcome this sort of comparison...
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                                            dan

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