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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Simon Clubley

> Until the Ada compiler situation is sorted, then it doesn't matter how
> powerful the language is and there's also no point doing widespread
> promotion of Ada in today's world.
> 

Yup, not only this but blog articles which point to software only available
in pro versions don’t help. They also recently said they’re working on
llvm, also useless because they’ll either not release it as open or they’ll
find a way to change the license to GPL.