Is there a free Ada compiler (or interpreter)?
There ARE indeed free Ada systems, and there is even choice: Ada/Ed for Ada 83, and AVLAda9X and GNAT for Ada 95. A complete list is available at the Ada Home, http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Compilers/Free.html (Strictly speaking these are free to distribute but NOT “public-domain”. They are “free”–under copyright conditions known as “GNU Copyleft”. In short: there is no warranty, and you are allowed to copy, modify, and distribute them; but you can’t charge anyone for the software itself, and if the software (necessarily including source code) is further distributed, it must be done under the same conditions–i.e. copyable, with sources and modifications, available to everyone else, etc.
There ARE indeed free Ada systems, and there is even choice: Ada/Ed for Ada 83, and AVLAda9X and GNAT for Ada 95. A complete list is available at the Ada Home, http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Compilers/Free.html (Strictly speaking these are free to distribute but NOT “public-domain”. They are “free”–under copyright conditions known as “GNU Copyleft”. In short: there is no warranty, and you are allowed to copy, modify, and distribute them; but you can’t charge anyone for the software itself, and if the software (necessarily including source code) is further distributed, it must be done under the same conditions–i.e.
