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I agree that Ada's string handling was terrible. More than terrible in fact. >If you install AdaCore's version, your programs become GPL! You sure about that
by acomjean 10y ago
I agree that Ada's string handling was terrible. More than terrible in fact.
>If you install AdaCore's version, your programs become GPL!
You sure about that? I worked at a company moving from Old Unix to Linux and were going to move to AdaCore compliers. This was a company that wanted to make sure when we downloaded software it went through a legal dept to check the licencing, and having the companies code released GPL would have been a non-starter. This was 10+ years ago though..
- JohnStrange 10y agoYour company probably paid for the commercial license ("GNAT Pro"). It's very expensive.
- acomjean 10y agoThey were contemplating purchasing a license I know. I left before anything happened. Keep in mind they were paying a fortune for support for another ada compiler (Rational APEX) on obsolete hardware (Solaris/ HPUX). I suspect they were evaluating if it was cheaper than migrating a huge codebase to another language. Migrating platforms can be a pain in the endian.