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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
Date: 27 Jan 2004 22:13:36 +0000
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David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> writes:

> My feelings too. 15 years ago, someone made a killing by releasing a
> Turbo Pascal for under a hundred bucks, and made Pascal a major
> language.  Free software has helped drop the off-the-shelf price of
> a complete Un*x system with C, C++, Pascal and Lisp compilers to
> under a hundred bucks.  But I still get quoted a price of $700 for
> an Ada compiler. Maybe that's fine for ye system engineers, but
> programmers, especially we student programmers, don't have a wealth
> of money to drop on compilers. Perhaps I need to find a new hammer.

This doesn't make sense.

The latest GCC distribution comes with C, C++, Fortran, Java, Pascal,
Python, Perl, and --- yes --- Ada. All at practically zero cost.

If I want a supported environment for any of those I will have to pay
money. For example, Dr Dobb's is advertising the Intel C++ compiler
for Linux at a special discount price of $378.

The Ada compiler for $700 is probably the Aonix one? They have a free
download too, again not supported (though they do have a mailing
list).

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.