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From: Erich <john@peppermind.com>
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As a newbie who has started to appreciate Ada (after an initial
painful learning phase) I'd say that Ada doesn't need another compiler
but rather an *affordable* cross-platform GUI toolkit that can be used
for the development of commercial software.

By affordable I mean 100$ to 300$. I would love to use Ada for larger
standalone GUI applications but the main choices QtAda and GtkAda are
simply out of question for a hobby shareware developer like me. :(