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Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:

> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > 
> > 	The GPL curse applies to small independent developers seeking to
> > produce generally marketable products -- the next Quicken, or
> > VersaCheck, for example... Given the prohibitive cost of obtaining a
> > closed-distribution capability for GNAT, they might easily chose to
> > substitute some other language -- M$ C++ compiler without the
> > VisualStudio environment appears to be available for the download; Sun's
> > Java seems to be behind a number of applications...
> 
> And GNAT is hardly the only low-cost compiler for those targets.


Exactly. There are other languages. All complainers now go away and
will leave the Ada community (which has as such no issues with highly
prices compilers) alone.

That was irony. 

But please don't do any Ada advocacy from now on. There are reasons
why Ada has been falling into disuse slowly (excapt for defense and
avionics) despit its technical merits.

Regards -- Markus