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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John Cook Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/05/30 Message-ID: <338F5D7D.6C03@tiac.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245072517 References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> Organization: Nashua Robot Builders Reply-To: jdcook@tiac.net.NOSPAM Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Bohn wrote: > > I am an Ada student. I have heard that Ada was designed for embeded > systems, but I haven't heard much about micro controller ada > programming. > > Does anyone know about any examples of the usage of Ada for robots > and programming micro controllers? > > Thank you very much > John Bohn If you like ADA, that is, if you enjoy very very verbose code and a very limited set of vendors then ADA is OK. However, if you want a small, terse language that is easily expandable, has been proven for 30 years and has a huge set of vendors that target the type of small systems a student can afford, look into C language. I'll admit that its harder to read than ADA but K&R wanted a portable assembly language with a rich set of operators and minimal constraints so they invented C, and it works. (And everyone uses it, unlike ADA). just my $0.02 -John C.-** -- Founder of Nashua Robot Builders, small computer/robot club in Nashua, NH jdcook@tiac.net http://www.tiac.net/users/bigqueue/others/robot/homepage.htm Member of the national lawsuit to repeal the Communications Decency Act. Happy ferret owner.