End of the 1990s with GNAT 3.1xx on Windows. IIRC there were several libraries and runtime elements included "just in case" and I didn't know that I had to dese

End of the 1990s with GNAT 3.1xx on Windows. IIRC there were several libraries and runtime elements included "just in case" and I didn't know that I had to deselect them. Perhaps it was the default setting in the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) that I used at this time. Didn't experience that with later GNATs (without GPS) on Linux. I still laugh about my first Hello World. My friends mocked me for my megabyte-sized beginner programs. It totally was in line with the image of Ada being a bloated, bureaucratic DoD monster. GPS made things feel extra complicated and ugly. That said, I'm considering to use Ada 2012 for several of my upcoming works.