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On 06/16/2014 02:31 PM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
> I meant available to a general user or beginner. Also, I meant those that
> do not use someone else's front end as I understand a lot of the Ada
> compilers available (at extreme cost) are the same front end.

Please don't spread FUD.

> Therefore 1) not many available for free or less than a couple I hundred
> quid and even that is too much for a lot of people, 2) not many independent
> implementations.

C's overriding design principle appears to have been ease of compiler 
implementation. The result was a very badly designed language with lots of 
implementations. Since the implementations are mostly crappy, they're free. (How 
crappy? Before it was bought by TI, there was a company called Tartan that made 
most of its money by selling C compilers for systems that came with a free C 
compiler.) Comparing crappy compilers for a crappy language to decent compilers 
for a well designed language makes no sense.

> Can't believe we have to spell this shit out constantly on this group.

Can't believe you still think "Ada compiler" means "free, high-quality, 
independently implemented Ada compiler with a complete run-time library".

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor,
not the programming language."
Preben Randhol
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