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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:07:08 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-19, Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 June 2014 08:22:08 UTC+1, Natasha Kerensikova  wrote:
>
>> So there is no fun hobby in my projects, only means to various ends.
>> (For example my soon-to-be-published Ada bindings to Renderman
>> Interface is a means to my fun hobby of computer graphics).
>
> Now that's a potentially killer application, shame it's not written
> entirely in Ada, but we can blame Apple/Pixar for that :P

I'm not sure what Apple has to do with that, but indeed, Annex E would
be lovely for such an applicaiton.

However, having seen Aqsis, Pixie and Appleseed, I would put it on a
similar hugeness scale as an Ada compiler, an OS or a web browser.


Natasha