From: jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-03-14T05:18:33-07:00 [thread overview]
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> On 11.03.11 16:20, KK6GM wrote:
>
> > Are you saying that a relative newcomer to Ada can take a board out of
> > its shipping box in the early evening and be running Ada code
> > (including tasking - Ravenscar would be fine - and realtime features)
> > by later that evening? I'd sure like to discover the board and
> > toolset that allows this, because I'll buy one today. I know this is
> > possible with at least one C/C++ toolset (Rowley Crossworks with its
> > included tasking library) because I have done it.
I've compiled some more details on the Mindstorm nxt below .. looks
promising. Maybe it's not quite what you have mind, but tell us what
we should do to make it closer to what you have in mind.
J.
"Lego Mindstorms NXT" wikipedia article:
A port of GNAT is available for the NXT. It relies
on a dedicated run-time kernel based on the Ravenscar
profile, the same used on the Goce satellite: this
permits to use high-level Ada features to develop
concurrent and real-time systems on the MINDSTORMS NXT.
Here's a snip from the adacore libre site:
http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/mindstorms/
[Unlike] the 2009 release of GNAT GPL for the LEGO
MINDSTORMS NXT, the 2010 release does not rely on any
operating system: it is an Ada-only bareboard solution
leveraging on Ada 2005 features for concurrent and
real-time behaviour.
Here’s what’s included:
* Support for the Ravenscar profile to bring Ada-level
tasking to the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT
* Support for Ada 2005 and a preview of Ada 2012
* Support for SPARK and RavenSPARK
* High-level drivers for the NXT brick, sensors
and motors, including Bluetooth, written in Ada
* Getting Started material and examples of applications
which can be used as teaching material
hardware description in UK commercial advertisement:
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=9841&cn=17&d=70
Mindstorms NXT Brick includes:
Flash memory
32-bit ARM7 microprocessor.
Support for Bluetooth wireless communication.
1 USB 2.0 port.
4 input ports.
3 output ports.
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2011-03-08 22:23 What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Lucretia
2011-03-09 3:19 ` Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-09 8:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-09 8:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-09 14:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-09 14:21 ` localhost
2011-03-09 15:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-09 15:17 ` localhost
2011-03-10 14:20 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-10 14:31 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-10 16:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-10 17:31 ` Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-09 20:43 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-09 22:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-10 0:38 ` Lucretia
2011-03-10 7:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-10 8:06 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 8:26 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-10 10:28 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 10:45 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-03-11 9:40 ` Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-13 11:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 10:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-10 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-10 10:35 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 11:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-10 12:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-10 12:27 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 12:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-10 13:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-10 13:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-10 14:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-10 14:45 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-10 15:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-13 11:38 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 11:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-13 12:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 14:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-14 2:38 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-10 21:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-11 8:12 ` Manfred Kremer
2011-03-11 12:04 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-11 22:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-11 23:24 ` Dan
2011-03-10 13:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-10 17:08 ` Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-14 19:11 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-14 21:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-13 10:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 10:24 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 21:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-13 22:04 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-14 0:09 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-14 2:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 16:45 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-14 18:29 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-14 18:37 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-14 19:43 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-14 2:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 10:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 21:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-13 10:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-13 11:42 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-13 12:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-12 19:55 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-25 12:36 ` Marco
2011-03-25 22:30 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-26 12:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 21:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-27 20:49 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:11 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-12 21:50 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 10:39 ` localhost
2011-03-09 11:24 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-09 11:38 ` localhost
2011-03-09 14:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-10 10:21 ` Gerd
2011-03-10 11:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-10 11:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-11 8:37 ` Stephen Leake
2011-03-11 12:08 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-11 15:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-11 15:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-12 20:26 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 15:15 ` Gerd
2011-03-26 16:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-09 11:36 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-09 11:42 ` localhost
2011-03-10 2:22 ` KK6GM
2011-03-11 14:01 ` Rego
2011-03-11 15:20 ` KK6GM
2011-03-11 16:42 ` Rego
2011-03-11 18:15 ` KK6GM
2011-03-11 20:09 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-11 16:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-14 12:18 ` jonathan [this message]
2011-03-14 14:12 ` KK6GM
2011-04-08 12:53 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2011-03-14 18:00 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-03-12 12:47 ` Stephen Leake
2011-03-12 18:15 ` KK6GM
2011-03-13 17:55 ` Lucretia
2011-03-14 3:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-15 0:40 ` Lucretia
2011-03-14 3:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 3:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 12:15 ` KK6GM
2011-03-14 13:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 14:05 ` KK6GM
2011-03-14 14:38 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-14 14:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-14 14:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-14 14:09 ` KK6GM
2011-03-14 14:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 17:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-14 17:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 20:04 ` Simon Clubley
2011-03-14 22:12 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-03-15 12:11 ` Simon Clubley
2011-03-15 20:25 ` J-P. Rosen
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2011-03-15 20:28 ` J-P. Rosen
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