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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:33:29 +0100
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Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Because most people building gcc use the configure option
> --enable-language-=c,c++
> instead of
> --enable-languages=c,c++,ada
>
> And most of the binaries for most of the distros are built that
> way. Ada is offered as an optional extra if you already know about it
> and specifically ask for it - AND it isn't simply missing

... and the host GCC has a working Ada compiler.