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On Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:20:01 AM UTC-6, Simon Clubley wrote:
> So to translate that into Ada, are you saying that people should only be
> using the very latest Ada revisions and hence only the latest compilers ?
> 
> If so, that's so out of touch with reality I don't know where to begin.

I think that the original poster is saying that Ada and Fortran share a common problem:  some non-open-source compilers are not seeing the investment this decade that that they saw in prior decades, due in turn to lower revenues.