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On 10/9/2014 5:58 AM, Mark Carroll wrote:
> There hasn't been any recent stimulus though apart from the "internal"
> one that I finished up with some of my Erlang learning and wanted to
> look at where Ada might be a better choice.

Ah, Erlang -- I would have liked to have done a VM for it in Ada... but 
there seems to be rather little in the way of specification for it.

> Ada does look good but, as far as I can tell, if I ever want to use it
> for any software not to be distributed under the GPL, [...]

Yeah, more than a few of us would like there to be more than one freely 
available implementation.