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Any time I look at Ada I end up at AdaCore and remember how ridiculously expensive it is to work with Ada. It's almost like all the free and/or open source Ada
by commentzorro 11y ago
Any time I look at Ada I end up at AdaCore and remember how ridiculously expensive it is to work with Ada. It's almost like all the free and/or open source Ada stuff was designed to drive you to AdaCore to spend spend spend. This lack of a high quality full set of compilers and tools always reminds me why I never play around with Ada.
- angersock 11y agoCould you elaborate on this? Are the compilers not fully-featured, or slow, or what?
- commentzorro 11y agoShow me where to get a full set of non-GPL ADA 2012 documentation, tools, libraries, compiler, IDE, etc. that doesn't lead back to AdaCore? And pricing on AdaCore is "Get a Price Quote." Which means, "you can afford it."
- na85 11y agoTo me, when pricing is "get a quote", that translates to "it's so exorbitant we are afraid to put it up publicly lest people immediately be turned away before we can deliver our sales pitch".
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThis book gives details on every advantage: http://www.adacore.com/uploads_gems/Ada_Safe_and_Secure_Booklet.pdf http://www.adacore.com/uploads_gems/Ada_Safe_and_Secure_Book...
- david-given 11y agoAdaCore's compilers are lawyerbombed; they're GPL'd without the library exception, so you can't use it for non-GPL'd software. (The binaries are unreleasable due to license conflict.) It's actually freeer to download the FSF-distributed version, which is GPL'd with the library extension. See: http://www.getadanow.com/ http://www.getadanow.com/ The FSF version is usually a couple of minor releases behind the AdaCore version, but is otherwise much less hassle.