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Current complaints are about the language not being free enough. And kind of boring looking.
by stesch 10y ago
Current complaints are about the language not being free enough.
And kind of boring looking.
- jordanb 10y agoThe main compiler nowadays for Ada is GNAT, the compiler is GPL and the runtime is LGPL. In a sea of C-syntax languages I find an ALGOL-syntax language to be really neat looking. :) I think the biggest problem with Ada is a small community/mindshare.
- the_why_of_y 10y agoActually Ada is quite unusual in that the official ISO standard has always been licensed under terms that permit unrestricted redistribution and even modification; it is AFAIK the only ISO language standard that you can install as a package[1][2] from Debian's "main" repository. The language is thus more free than ISO C and C++, where everybody googles for "draft" pdfs and hopes their content does not substantially differ from the actual standard. [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ada-reference-manual-2005 https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ada-reference-manual-2005 [2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ada-reference-manual-2012 https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ada-reference-manual-2012