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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:34:44 +0200
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:09:23 +0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> On 2014-06-11, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:34:12 +0300, Tero Koskinen wrote:
>>> - HTTP client library with SSL (using curl bindings for now)
>>
>> A client?
>>
> There are a large number of reasons to want to issue HTTP/HTTPS requests
> directly from within a program and to receive the results directly back
> into that same program.

Maybe, but if not implementing a browser, why sending a pair of strings and
reading few strings back deserves a library?

>>> - At least semi-decent runtime/peripheral library for ARM Cortex-Mx
>>>   processors[3]
>>
>> Oh, yes. As well as a cross compiler. It is a torture to use the native
>> GNAT. 
> 
> When you talk about native GNAT in this specific case, are you talking
> about a native ARM GNAT compiler running on an ARM board under something
> like Linux ?

Yep.

> Their ARM version appears to be a paid version only (which was news to me).

ARM cross hosted on x86 Linux is GNAT Pro. There never was a GPL edition
of.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de