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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d63muhmh.fsf@insalien.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de xaMSZ2rzjgpAnXhP//ai7AewJTFwB1Vvivx+58+DTWTA+IoRg= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1947 Date: 2004-06-27T09:54:18+02:00 List-Id: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:36:06 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Russ writes: >> Part of the problem, as I see it, is that open-source developers now >> expect their compiler to be free -- as in beer. So do students. That >> is a real dilemma for compiler vendors, of course, and I don't envy >> them. >> >> But now that the Ada->JVM compilers have been determined to be >> commercially unviable, is it conceivable that they could be >> open-sourced and made available for free -- as in beer *and* speech? >> >> Why waste all the effort that went into them? Perhaps a free >> Ada->JVM compiler with robust bindings to the Java class libraries >> might be a key to a revival of Ada. Then again, maybe not. But if >> not, the prospects for a revival of Ada seem rather bleak. > > JGNAT is free. Anyone interested can get it at no cost, use it for > any purpose they wish, change it, and redistribute it along with their > changes. So, nothing is lost :) And nothing happens, alas! -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de