Since when was expense a problem for defense spending?
In the video, the narrator also claims that Ada compilers were expensive and thus students were dissuaded from trying it out. However, in researching this comment I founds that the Gnat project has been around since the early 90s. Maybe it wasn't complete enough until much later and maybe potential students of the time weren't using GNU?
The GNAT project started in 1992 when the United States Air Force awarded New
York University (NYU) a contract to build a free compiler for Ada to help
with the Ada 9X standardization process. The 3-million-dollar contract
required the use of the GNU GPL for all development, and assigned the
copyright to the Free Software Foundation.
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Since when was expense a problem for defense spending?
In the video, the narrator also claims that Ada compilers were expensive and thus students were dissuaded from trying it out. However, in researching this comment I founds that the Gnat project has been around since the early 90s. Maybe it wasn't complete enough until much later and maybe potential students of the time weren't using GNU?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT