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: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:15:30 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="13766"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QVAma35DCG7+Gox6ieVrR" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:tLf8sityQm4/sp2rqnRjxZzVXNc= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Original-Bytes: 2640 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186805 Date: 2014-06-10T17:15:30+02:00 List-Id: Le 10/06/2014 16:43, Brad Moore a écrit : >> But you've not taken into account everything else I said. RE: The libs >> are GPL'd too, therefore you cannot do anything reasonable these days >> without unicode or XML, in fact both Android and iOS require the use >> of both. You would have to try to find an appropriately licenced lib >> or write your own or bind to something else. > > Is there a list of such libraries that would be of interest? If that is > what is stopping people from using Ada, then I would think it wouldn't > be too hard to find people willing to work on creating non-GPL versions > of such libraries, or to create bindings to other libraries that already > exist. At the very least it would be a lot easier than inventing a new > language, and then creating versions of those libraries in that new > language. I'd like some examples too. AFAIK, the standard library that comes with FSF-Gnat has the famous copyright exception (i.e. they are GMGPL, not pure GPL). And other libraries have the copyright chosen by their author, as for any language... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr