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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 21:29:19 +0000 (UTC)
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> 
> Rereading this, it comes off as more negative than I intended. Ada was 
> designed as a programming language for "programming in the large", and that 
> means that it's strengths don't really show up on tiny programs (which is 
> what you can fit on tiny boards). That's a problem for Ada if you consider 
> the tiny boards as an entry to working on larger systems down the road; so 
> I'm not against efforts to use Ada on those sorts of systems -- I'm just 
> dubious that they really can be successful (if they make Ada into "just 
> another programming language", it's unclear that anyone will understand why 
> Ada is so great).
> 
>                                               Randy.

Whilst it was programming in the large it was also in embedded in which it
was aimed.