From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:d405:: with SMTP id l5-v6mr4986896iog.70.1525013118050; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:45:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:70d1:: with SMTP id w17-v6mr173973otj.5.1525013117856; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!maths.tcd.ie!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!ottix-news.ottix.net!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!f63-v6no1597190itc.0!news-out.google.com!15-v6ni2364itg.0!nntp.google.com!f63-v6no1597186itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:45:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fu3eozdz.fsf@nightsong.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=135.23.130.51; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 135.23.130.51 References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87k1su7nag.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po2la2qt.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in8buttb.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <3f7a7f76-c5eb-4cba-9051-6b5dfeeb906c@googlegroups.com> <37b1df62-1839-4cf4-821b-504059ccccb9@googlegroups.com> <87fu3eozdz.fsf@nightsong.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <10f2976f-54b7-41a0-9203-a7ac4e385865@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? From: patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:45:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51792 Date: 2018-04-29T07:45:17-07:00 List-Id: Thanks for the feedback Luke. I didn't know that about the FSF vs GPL version and yeah, I showed up on ##C on freenode a few years ago and got beat up on sight :) I will come out of my Ada83 shell someday but for now I don't have much time to program in Ada and I figure I better just use a small subset and get started coding.