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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/17
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Dave Smith said

<<It is a sad fact that many customers, especially in the defence world,
won't touch anything even faintly associated with "pd". It`s probably
a case that they are spending many millions and expect us to spend
nearly as much to develop their products.>>

Please note that GNAT is not public domain. It is copyrighted and the
copyright holders will vigorously defend this copyright if it is violated!

I know that people who don't understand things clearly often get mixed
up between the concepts of public domain, freeware, shareware, and free
software, and that is understandable, but it is an important distinction!