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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? Date: 12 May 2004 10:13:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <20619edc.0405120913.6f96b92e@posting.google.com> References: <409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com> <2geb04F1pte3U1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.8.35.213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1084382016 32763 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2004 17:13:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:499 Date: 2004-05-12T10:13:36-07:00 List-Id: Peter Amey wrote in message news:<2geb04F1pte3U1@uni-berlin.de>... > There might not be general Ada solutions for these processors but there > a SPARK one. Because SPARK is designed to require little or no run-time > library support it is possible to design and analyse in SPARK and then > compile to C en route to running on small processors. The translation > is simple because SPARK in unambiguous and because issues like array > bounds violation have all been dealt with and eliminated at the SPARK > design level. I am presenting a paper on this at Ada Europe this year. > > Peter I think this is a _very_ exciting approach and I hope it catches on. Good luck! Mike