Re: why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense

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On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 4:42:02 PM UTC-4, riea...@comcast.net wrote:
> On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 1:51:55 AM UTC-4, Patrick Jakubowski wrote:
> > Well. To simply say. Ada was so much ahead of its time that it missed its window of opportunity.
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> In one sense very, very true.  There were a lot of discussions--and eventually existence proofs about Ada compilers running on machines with 256k bytes of memory.  (In some cases, 128 words of addressable memory.)  In addition, early Ada compilers were not as smart about compilation orders as they have become since.
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> I won't go into PC family memory and addressing, just say that the Alsys compiler which came with a memory card--and the software to make it run on 80286 based machines--was by far the best (but expensive) Ada solution for PCs.  It was quite a while before you could assume that a PC-compatible machine was running in 32-bit mode with virtual memory.
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> In that gap, Java was sold as "write once, run anywhere" and it could in fact be installed on most PCs whatever their CPU and memory organization.

with gonga and free gnat(?) gcc ish compiler I can recreated amazon on small scale?