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Subject: Studying and Maintaining  GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group?
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Hi Everyone

If I started a new group with the goal of discussing GNAT internals and maintaining GNAT it outside of Adacore, would anyone join?

As a group, we might be able to get the GCC people to adopt patches and features. A single person might not have the clout.

It could give the language new life if the current free, open source compiler most of us use today continues to move in a direction towards unpaid hobbyist use or commercial use with high fees.

It would be a moderated group and we could kick people out for posting about Pascal or human evolution 10 times a day :)

We could create another section in the group for general questions too, for those that feel that the signal to noise here is not good.

Please let me know-Pat