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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:27:47 -0500
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"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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>Indeed, I am willing to double the money to support 32-bit on those 
>platforms,
>even though increasingly 32-bit legacy app support is unfortunately 
>becoming
>a moot point on some of those platforms.  So any Ada compilers available 
>for
>all 8 {OS, ISA} targets for $1560?

The 64-bit platforms haven't been created yet. The majority of programs 
don't need the extra address space (of course, if you have to interface to 
something 64-bit, that's moot) and the extra size cost is substantial (which 
matters to a compiler that was always designed with the space used as the #1 
criteria).

In any case, I'd love to do the Linux runtime and the x64 code generator 
(code generators are fun and rewarding in a way that hardly any other parts 
of a compiler are -- there's a reason I never let anyone else work on 
those). I just need some other source of income so I'd have the time. :-)

I'd guess that any new platforms would be priced differently (probably more 
$$ with a longer built-in support period); my intent was to move in the 
direction of nearly free acquistion and significant support fees (since that 
is where the work - and renewals - are).

                      Randy.