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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:52:57 -0500
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Robert Dewar wrote in message
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>"Juha Valimaki" <juha.valimaki@xdsloy.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Yes, I agree with you. It's just shame that sometimes all users don't
fit in
>> the same business model. The two bad things I see in ACT business
model is
>> that (1) it makes it hard for other companies to offer cheap, but not
free,
>> Ada tools
>
>No one ever succeeded at doing this who tried in the past, and the
attempts
>at this all failed when there *WAS* no freely available version of
>Ada.

That's a truly odd thing to say, because it is so obviously False. The
last great attempt (ObjectAda) certainly occurred after GNAT was around.
And we (RR Software) were planning to try again until GNAT destroyed our
core business (inexpensive Ada compilers for students, individuals, and
small teams). Without the core revenue, we simply couldn't support
another push in that direction.

                Randy Brukardt