John:

> What is the time frame for such a thing? I'm fighting the perception that
> Ada is to expensive and not mainstream enough. Anything that could give me
> an ada development system ala gcc or similar would go a long way to at least
> maintaining our Ada project.

There is already an "ada development system ala gcc". Gcc
compiles Ada too. If you want a ready-to-run version have
a look at <URL:ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/>.

Good luck,

Jacob

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