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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,e276c1ed16429c03 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.78.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular! Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:17:54 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4cc4cb65$0$6985$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <5086cc5e-cd51-4222-a977-06bdb4fb3430@u10g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: YUJoXIV+Uw1GYWsWw3uzcA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.63 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14757 Date: 2010-10-25T21:17:54+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:47:38 +0200, Ludovic Brenta = a =C3=A9crit: > I differ. In the particular case of Ada, I doubt there woult be any > market at all if it weren't for the zero-cost editions of GNAT. These= > attract younger developers and make Ada visible. Personally, I think > the GPL saved the market of Ada compilers. Maybe the same effect > could > have been achieved with non-free compilers at low cost (less than 100 > EUR) but the competition from other languages with zero-cost compilers= > for other languages might have killed the Ada market entirely. So with your last sentence, you just confirmed what some body here are = complaining about ;) -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens.