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Ada isn't a commercial language, though AdaCore's implementation is. Just like Green Hills compiler implementations cost money, sometimes the commercial implementations offer features/guarantees/support the open source implementations do not.


Correct.

Here is the Ada 2012 standard: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...

If you create a programming language that meets all of the Ada standard requirements, you will have your own Ada implementation.

You could use whatever backend suits your needs (or write your own) and license it accordingly.


By the way, the test suite, ACATS is part of the standard and is freely available. Not enough for an industrial strength compiler, but amazingly detailed already.




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