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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Making ADA More Popular Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <36AF5ABC.702318FF@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437613968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. 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 -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Ph: 561.796.8997 Fx: 561.796.4669 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.