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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:01:17 -0700 (PDT)
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fft1976 wrote:
> Ada is also 2x slower [than C], but less suitable for your purposes (verbose,
> less memory safe than OCaml, free compilers produce GPL-only code)

Correction: the Ada run-time library from GCC (from the Free Software
Foundation) is licensed under GPLv3 with run-time linking exception,
so does not cause the executables to be under GPL.  But that wasn't
the OP's concern, anyway.

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Ludovic Brenta.