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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: GPS
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 20:32:51 -0600
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On Fri, 03 May 2002 08:37:04 -0600, Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Fri, 03 May 2002 12:55:28 GMT, Steve Doiel wrote:
> 
>> Given the history of ACT I would be surprised if it were not made
>> public. The fact that it cost to make the nice IDE has little to do
>> with their free sofware philosophy.  Look at GVD, XML/Ada, GNAT,
>> Glide, etc.
> 
> I agree, anyway we'll see in Q4 what happens :-) If made public
> though, it would be a major tool also for the C users out there in the
> Open Source community, so I would think it could aquire a lot of
> users. And hopefully people will pick up that the program is made with
> Ada95 and *perhaps* think "Hmm, perhaps I should give this language a
> try!" :-)

Which brings up the question... Has anyone seen much movement of GVD
into the C/C++ world?

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas