Re: Would this be logical for embedded hardware?

[Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

Hi Jeffery
> 
> This sounds like what was commonly heard about Ada-83 tasking: it won't be fast 
> enough, or will use too much memory/CPU/whatever, so we won't use it and will 
> write a cyclic executive instead. Those who actually used tasks usually found 
> them that they worked fine, and resulted in a much simpler design as well. So 
> don't write off something that would be "fine" without substantiation.
> 
I really wasn't trying to trash Ada in anyway

> 
> I've worked on embedded systems like this (multiple networked 32-bit 
> processors), but they were all developed in Ada. I don't see why you couldn't 
> use Ada for all the processors in your system, too. And you could look into 
> SoftTech's compiler that generates C if you have difficulty finding an Ada 
> compiler targeting your processor of choice.

I couldn't actually find a company called SoftTech that had compilers. This  name is used by many companies.

Could you point me to their site?

Thanks for the feedback-Patrick