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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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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> wrote in message 
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> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> Or you could just pay for a compiler rather than assuming some sort of
>> free lunch. There's many of them available (see PTC, RRS, Irvine,
>> etc., or even AdaCore). Is $195 really too much money?
>
> 195 USD is not too much money.  But having to use Microsoft Windows is
> too much of an overhead for me.
>
> Could RR Software make a crowd-funding/pre-pay deal on a Linux version
> of Janus/Ada?  How many licenses would you need to sell, to be ready to
> commit to deliver a Linux version of Janus/Ada?

Probably not that many (surely more than 20, probably less than 100), but 
I'm pretty booked until Ada 2020 is in the bag (summer 2019). So I wouldn't 
want to promise something that I couldn't complete. [I've thought about this 
project in the past, it probably wouldn't be too hard of a conversion -- we 
had SCO Unix compiler back in the day, so the front-end has needed 
case-insensitive file support.]

                            Randy.