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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 10:32:04 PM UTC-4, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Jacob Sparre Andersen" ... wrote in message news: ...
> > Randy Brukardt wrote:
> >
> >> Or you could just pay for a compiler rather than assuming some sort of
> >> free lunch. There's many of them available (see PTC, RRS, Irvine,
> >> etc., or even AdaCore). Is $195 really too much money?
> >
> > 195 USD is not too much money.  But having to use Microsoft Windows is
> > too much of an overhead for me.
> >
> > Could RR Software make a crowd-funding/pre-pay deal on a Linux version
> > of Janus/Ada?  How many licenses would you need to sell, to be ready to
> > commit to deliver a Linux version of Janus/Ada?
>=20
> Probably not that many (surely more than 20, probably less than 100),

Holy cow!  Then just ask here on c.l.a (and probably some of the other Ada =
forums) who/how many people would chip in.  I bet some would cough up some =
money even if they were not actually in personal need of that compiler vari=
ant just to shut up the "not enough Ada compilers" detractors! I would!

Vin