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In article <a96bou$fb5$02$1@news.t-online.com>, Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de> writes:

> - Who continues Ada compiler support in the future? Now we have some kind 
> companies who provide good Ada compilers (commercial and for free). But 
> someday they could say: "There is no more demand for commercial Ada so we 
> have decided to stop further Ada support." What then? It is not enough to 
> have a good dynamic Ada standardization process. It is also important to 
> have continuing Ada compiler support in the future!

And Microsoft could say that .NET was the wave of the future,
replacing COM, which had replaced DCOM, which had replaced
something whose name I forget.  Or Apple could drop support
for AOCE when they thought it unpopular.

Frankly I trust small companies much more than larger ones.