Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety !

[Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>]

On 2014-06-19 03:22, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:

> I guess the bottom line is that your project and mine have actually very
> different aims: you want a fun hobby, I want to help with compiler
> diversity.

Yes, I concur with your summary. I also know that picking an
implementation language other than that which is being compiled will
tend to greatly limit contributors. On the other hand, even in my
project there will be significant amounts of Ada in the runtime system
and libraries, etc.

Actually a "strategic" goal of my project is to make people from both
communities aware of each other. While the Ada people here tend to say,
"why would you want to use [insert name of some non-Ada language] for
anything?" I'm about 100% sure the Scala people on the other side would
say, "Ada? Huh...?" However, in my view both are fine languages, each in
its own way, and it would be cool to bring the communities together even
if only in some small manner.

In any case, I certainly am not claiming that my project will provide
any useful degree of compiler diversity... at least not in the
foreseeable future.

Peter