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foo wong <crap@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, this seems like a typical thread here. 

It is, addressing typical questions.

> Sorry, I am only going to add to the bickering... I am not sure if G.B is
> affiliated with Adacore but this statement makes me think so:

I‘m not, never was.

> All of the other languages supported by GCC are intended to make
> commercial software easy to develop with GCC. Are the folks behind the
> other languages withholding code to make more platforms available or
> releasing GCC code much later then their other offerings posted elsewhere. 

So lack of free committer-supported runtimes with commercially permissive
licensing it is now...

> GNAT is the odd one out and it's an obvious sales ploy.

Yes, but given the Ada embedded market, what is the incentive to a small
compiler support company of giving their assets away for free?

> There are so many brilliant people here, if you guys worked together, Ada
> would not have to be in this state.

How many professors and exceptionally skillful people have worked person
years to make a single  first Ada compiler with run-time?