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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
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On 2014-06-11, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 12:32 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2014-06-10, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> If it's targeted by a C compiler then it's targeted by an Ada compiler.
>>
>> That doesn't make sense.
>>
>> Some random examples:
>>
>> What about the various microcontrollers you can buy which have C
>> available but not a Ada compiler ?
>>
>> What about IBM's AS/400 or MVS systems ?
>>
>> What about a usable version of Ada for the PIC32MX ?
>
> What about the AdaMagic compiler that uses ANSI C as its intermediate
> language?
>

The AdaMagic compiler is utterly unsuitable here.

In a world where development environments are available for free, you
are not going to persuade people to try Ada by telling them they have
to pay mega dollars/mega pounds for a Ada to C compiler.

When you are doing development in a corporate environment on production
systems, then a paid for solution makes very good sense. When you are
trying to persuade new people to adopt Ada, it does not.

Simon.

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