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Borland should have made the language 100% free with a totally 100% free command line compiler and libraries.

Charge people for the IDE - everyone seems to hate paying for languages but be quite happy to pay for IDEs.

Will you happily pay for Ada IDE? Another part of your proposal is already true. Ada has free compiler and libraries. Paid IDE is all that remains, that's how things work, right?

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