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Sadly it suffered from high prices, and being extra tooling even on UNIX SDKs, until GNAT came to be.

Still, not all languages can assert having 7 commercial vendors in business, lasting 40 years and counting.

In case others were curious to look up the timeline, WP says first validated GNAT release was in 1995, vs 1983 for the earliest validated implementation.

(but perhaps the earlier stuff wasn't practical: "Early Ada compilers struggled to implement the large, complex language, and both compile-time and run-time performance tended to be slow and tools primitive" ... "By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ada compilers had improved in performance")

Another issue that delayed adoption in regards to GNAT specially was the licence, somehow debatable, similarly to what happened with Qt, or Java implementations.

Pretty much any job using it will require security clearance ...

This is your first comment in 11 months and 1 of only 4 over 10 years. What is great about it? What do you like?

It might be because I have "showdead" enabled but I see that there are many frequent comments from this user when clicking their page. Every comment I see from them seems to be flagged/dead though...