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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:31:12 +0200
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 13:21:52 -0700 (PDT), Patrick wrote:

> Now I can see where you are coming from but 11 months ago I had no idea
> that Ada, the language designed for embedded work, was not able to be
> embedded via GCC and was largely confined to the desktop unless the
> programmer or his/her company is quite wealthy.

Remember that Ada was designed 80's. Embedded changed drastically since
then. The "embedded" we do today is unthinkable without Ethernet and TCP/IP
stack, tasking support, USB and flash support, high-resolution clock. That
means a full-scale OS. To have a compiler for such a target is rather a
minor problem. Ada run-time, tons of drivers for the OS, the loader are
greater troubles.

Embedded became bigger than one-man hobby project. If that didn't scare
you, let you invested 10+ years in a board, which definitely will be out of
stock in just 2-5 years to come? What then? It just does not make sense
anymore. Sorry.

Why don't you buy a single board x86 PC, which could be under 30 EUR,
install Linux on it and spare most of the headache?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de