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: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx13.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hubert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT? References: <87fvdr2vdv.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <54609F34.4080201@spam.spam> <35f01472-3510-4f67-8765-006fa8591c35@googlegroups.com> <9tc8w.73007$ZT5.37595@fx07.iad> <22a3816a-4e89-48f0-a126-dce581781beb@googlegroups.com> <084b1934-9641-425e-85ec-293e0334413e@googlegroups.com> <86bf69c8-eb08-4696-b6c9-3784f5c42213@googlegroups.com> <87389olqie.fsf@ixod.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141111-4, 11/11/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:44:22 UTC Organization: http://www.NewsDemon.com Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:44:28 -0800 X-Received-Bytes: 2545 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2363098704 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:190458 Date: 2014-11-12T02:44:28-08:00 List-Id: > There is a market of deep pockets for Ada (so far), but there is no market of small Ada developers. They have locked customers with deep pockets and no competence, so they are not interested in other market. I agree here. I guess though it's a bit of a chicken-egg problem. without software to get one started with Ada, there is no incentive to use Ada over C++ but without little guys using Ada, there is little incentive to write software others could use. The Gnoga project might be something to get people started though. Part of what put me off two years ago was that Gtk wasn't working very well for me. The layout editor was messing up half my screen and looked not very user friendly, so my conclusion was without a decent User Interface library it makes little sense for me to invest more time. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com