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On 04/18/2014 01:48 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> (2) You have to pay for that compiler and the compilers people can choose
> for alternative languages are free of charge.

This, I think, I a valid part of the reason for C's dominance: there is a free C 
compiler for almost every platform. While there are free Ada compilers for the 
most common platforms, there are far more platforms without a free Ada compiler 
than platforms without a free C compiler.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is vast and dangerous, a sort of Mordor of
programming languages."
Jason R. Fruit
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