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Fabien Chouteau <fabien.chouteau@gmail.com> writes:

> It took time and effort to publish GNAT-LLVM on GitHub, and AdaCore
> had absolutely no obligation to do so. To be honest, I am personally a
> bit disappointed to see such a long discussion on what is allegedly
> not possible to do with GNAT-LLVM (and was absolutely not possible
> before anyway), rather than all the possibilities that GNAT-LLVM
> opens.

Personally, I thank AdaCore for making such an interesting project
available.

A couple of postings down Jeffrey Carter quoted this, which seems apt in
the current context:

   "Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however
   admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English
   mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility
   in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will
   pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his
   eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a
   pineapple."

   Charles Babbage