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!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Danforth Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Message-ID: References: <87h9zdpi84.fsf@ixod.org> X-Trace: solani.org 1415119557 4601 eJwNw4ENwDAIA7CXSCFknLOC+P+EzZLpiWxFMoPLfVQxPcaVyu2ghixf1Gv6U4NoYPr2ucAHBf4Qbw== (4 Nov 2014 16:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:45:57 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: eJwFwYcBwDAIA7CXGIbE5zSM/0+oFJ6adZCRiI3lrODzAeqarrm5RO7TIqik337itl2jyocTnFJkt5QE7w89vxTY Cancel-Lock: sha1:tjZVOcPdewtuC5MSVhrlYf7g5Ek= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNysEBwCAIA8CVUJOA4wjK/iO09z4uDZVDFNjswMbpzPFKAHkz7Z1Jn1L18r+2fFtEpNPuByCsEOU= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23021 Date: 2014-11-04T16:45:57+00:00 List-Id: > There are more compilers than just GNAT compilers. There are but not for a guy who isn't already in business selling software written in Ada. Janus Ada /RR Software pricing looked acceptable for a hobbyist last time I looked (a few years ago) but that's it as far as I know. Government contract pricing and severe attitude problems at vendors make the price of entry for Ada higher than just about anything else. Greenhills laughed me off the phone when I called in 2008 asking if they had hobbyist or single developer licenses. They wouldn't even tell me how much their offering cost. This kind of behavior really says a lot about the market. The RR web site suggests nothing has happened since Ada 95 and most people are interested in something a little newer... if not you can still find copies of 3.15p and won't catch gpl-bola from it. Barry