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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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> On 2018-04-20, briot.emmanuel@gmail.com <briot.emmanuel@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> And there are not any other affordable compilers for Ada for people who
> _are_ willing to pay a reasonable price. Intel sells pretty good Fortran 
> and
> C/C++ compilers for about USD 1.250.

What's affordable? The Janus/Ada Personal Edition is still $195 (including 3 
months of support). I don't know the PTC pricelist these days, but they used 
to have ObjectAda versions under $1K.

If you are in the Ada = GNAT camp, well, your out of luck and probably ought 
to be. ;-)

                     Randy.