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From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:05:13 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-09-24, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> writes:
>> Ada is about order, planning, design and then implementation, doing
>> things correctly with a long term view and thinking about the next guy
>> or guys who'll maintain it. If they spent as much time polishing their
>> code as they do their silly communist license boilerplate we'd have
>> quite a different situation by now ;-)
>

I was referring to the difference between the Ada world-view and the UNIX
(Linux) world view.


> I wonder if you use the Adacore GNAT compiler, and if so, where you
> think most of the code in it came from.  Hint:
>   http://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/toolsuite/

We don't use it where I work although I've used the so-called gcc-ada for
some personal projects. I'm well aware where it comes from. I paid for
it. And so did anyone else who was paying U.S. income tax when NYU received
the federal grant to develop it. It's a neat trick that somebody was able to
turn a federally-funded educational software development project into a
private, for-profit business. Hint: the code was not GPL until after 3.15p.

Bill