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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 07:11:02 +0100
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> On 7/6/2014 7:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> You can't do that until you have Ada compilers which are as widespread as C.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
> Sorry for basic question, but I thought Ada is now part of gnu gcc
> (gnat compiler)
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GNAT
>
> And I thought that this mean that everywhere there is gnu gcc, there
> will be Ada as well? And since everywhere there is gnu gcc as given in
> this list:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html
>
> There will also be a c compiler, then why would Ada be less available
> than C compilers?
>
> Isn't gnu gcc available everywhere? or may be the gnat part of gcc is
> not available everywhere like the c compiler part of gcc is?

It's the runtime.

Would you be happy with a compiler that didn't support exceptions,
functions with indefinite return values (eg String), ...?