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AJAskey <AskeyAJ@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 21, 9:50 am, "jimmaureenrog...@worldnet.att.net"
> <jimmaureenrog...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>> I do not know which planet you live on. I started downloading GNAT
>> in 1994 and have been using it on my home machine since then.
>
> Sure the geeks could download stuff in 1994.  The average person did
> not have this opportunity until the late 1990s - after the DoD
> shutdown the Ada funding.  Google ADA and see all the sites that have
> not been updated since 1998.  Ada need to be marketed to program

Absolutely. Just one more example

The FSF ftp site has README

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnat.README

referring one to cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat -- a location which once carried
gnat 3.15p, but where all actual Gnat binaries have been removed some
years ago (AFAIK even before there was a GPL Gnat by AdaCore when
3.15p was the latest and only public release).

The FSF free software directory links to http://www.gnat.com/ and
ttps://libre2.adacore.com/ -- sites carrying the GPL-only version of
Gnat, without mentioning the that there is another version of Gnat
integrated in the Gcc source tree, the so called FSF-version of Gnat,
which has a linking exception for the run time.

Isn't that confusing? :-/

Regards -- Markus