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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 30, 4:04=A0am, fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 3:01=A0pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
> > fft1976 wrote:
> > > Ada is also 2x slower [than C], but less suitable for your purposes (=
verbose,
> > > less memory safe than OCaml, free compilers produce GPL-only code)
>
> > Correction: the Ada run-time library from GCC (from the Free Software
> > Foundation) is licensed under GPLv3 with run-time linking exception,
> > so does not cause the executables to be under GPL. =A0But that wasn't
> > the OP's concern, anyway.
>
> I've read somewhere that the quality of those FSF Ada tools/libraries
> is not as good (if it were, what would keep the commercial vendors in
> business?)

Support. But in general the FSF is always going to be a bit 'behind
the curve'.

Cheers
-- Martin