From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 19:12:22 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Adacore and licensing (again), was: Re: State of the compiler market Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 20:12:23 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87varxjouh.fsf@nightsong.com> <250466748.510009784.561340.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <04f3a0f2-deb4-4b3e-a0bf-68d56bba7204@googlegroups.com> <1183448424.510448554.434851.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.186 X-Trace: sv3-iuN7CeLGXYSph09Wz0rzhsaRE5QM/Q8Qd7fbNjjV9q6QU5X8TiSXc8u9HjIZ5zzoC6l8REEHSuus4WP!cevCBan9sabJojbfw+q7payKckqcEF5XQYxn8/4vucoNmudJtSEcr4W4fdtSlDj0uVd7L1AcQOxJ!8LLdKUJq9W+wjSouaLT9kaFgXSCf X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2790 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33472 Date: 2017-03-05T20:12:23-05:00 List-Id: On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:17:43 +0000, Luke A. Guest declaimed the following: > >The issue is there are numerous free compilers for other languages, yet >only one for Ada. So that isn't really an argument for most people here. Really? GnuCOBOL (former OpenCOBOL) generates C source code, so one still has to have a compliant C compiler -- and looks to be the only one that might implement the Report Writer... WildCat COBOL .NET now redirects to an "Open-Cobol" mingw. COBOL for GCC supposedly only supports a small subset of COBOL -- for Linux; Tiny COBOL for Linux aimed at the 85 standard -- don't know if it supports Report Writer. Pity the Fujitsu COBOL 4 that came with my ~2000 text books only installs on 32-bit Win9X (I could never get the installer to work on WinXT even in compatibility mode). IT supported the Report Writer AND had a GUI builder/event handler model. Let's see what the Raincode compiler provides (if they approve a non-company hobbyist download) Okay -- looks like a good spread for FORTRAN, even ignoring the translators to C and Java. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/