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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On 18-04-18 20:08 , Lucretia wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:31:26 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
>
>> Survey:  truly how bad is using FSF GNAT in practice?

I used it exclusively for about 10 years for a commercial, closed-source 
product. It was ok, but I deliberately stayed away from the newest 
language features until they had been stable in GNAT Pro for a while. 
Also, I used only the basic compiler, and neither GPS nor any of the 
surrounding tool-sets for databases, GUIs, etc.

>> I think that the real problem with AdaCore is the lack of sub-$1000
>> non-GPL annual license for mass-market operating systems on
>> mass-market ISAs, such as Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS.

Janus/Ada and some versions of ObjectAda are or were in that range, but 
have not, I believe, sold in "mass-market" numbers.

> Other compiler vendor's won't do shit for OSS, the only reason
> AdaCore do is because they started at NYU and was spun out as a
> separate company,

AIUI, making the compiler open-source (maybe even GPL) was a condition 
in the original government contract that NYU won and which produced the 
first GNAT.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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