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Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
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Date: 2016-08-29T14:51:35-07:00
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On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 1:49:23 PM UTC-4, Nicholas Colin Paul de Glou=
cester wrote:

> Thay may be nice, but they are also out-of-the-language means.

Uh, when I use a text editor to create Ada source files, then call gnatmake=
 on the main program, I don't need to know anything about makefiles, pre-pr=
ocessor commands to mix in with my source, linker commands to bring in math=
 libraries or whatever.  In fact, I can and have created programs with GNAT=
s assembly language commands, and recompile for a different platform withou=
t change.  (Not guaranteed to work, and you have to be careful.) All in all=
, much, much better than other languages where moving an application from o=
ne compiler to another for the same target can take weeks.

On the downside, Ada is just getting to the point where OS calls and graphi=
cs is as easy as the rest of the langauge domain...