From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Making ADA More Popular
Date: 1999/01/27
Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36AF5ABC.702318FF@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OuXOQsbS#GA.281@nih2naac.prod2.compuserve.com
Michael Garrett wrote:
>
> Take an inexpensive processor which has a gnu / cygnus compiler port and its
> evaluation board
> and provide gnat with a runtime environment (RTEMS ADA?) for a decent price,
> around 200.00 US.
<snip>
I have often said that an Ada compiler manufacturer could do well by
getting into bed with some SBC manufacturer and putting out a whole kit.
If you had a relatively inexpensive SBC with a couple of A/D's, F/D's
and a bunch of discretes which was large enough to be used for
reasonably sophisticated applications, and you could get a PC based
programming environment which gave you an Ada compiler & the tools you
need to get code onto the board, you'd really have something there. With
something like GNAT, there's a natural advantage in having the built-in
C compiler because most of the folks working on boards like this are
already doing it in C and this would be a way for them to ease into Ada
in a non-threatening way. The pitch would be this: You program the board
in Ada and all of the support tools, libraries, runtime, etc is very Ada
oriented. O.K. if you *really must* proigram it in C, the compiler will
do that, but you'll find the tasking, libraries, etc, to be more
"natural" in Ada so maybe you want to learn that rather than spit into
the wind...
MDC
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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