From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: roderick.chapman@googlemail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? Date: 25 Feb 2007 05:10:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172409051.195703.233490@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172239820.896603.222120@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.192.138.181 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172409056 29323 127.0.0.1 (25 Feb 2007 13:10:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:10:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.192.138.181; posting-account=EhC47gwAAABJYiJ7JUJjwDyYMTWH1OKq Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9519 Date: 2007-02-25T05:10:51-08:00 List-Id: >Where is Wirth when you need him? In retirement. He did give the after-dinner speech at the VSTTE conference in Zurich in 2005, and he was brilliant. I wish I could remember exactly what he said about C++ - I think the word "abomination" was in there somewhere... :-) I met him afterwards and had a brief chance to chat and thank him for his influence on SPARK. - Rod, SPARK Team