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Subject: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
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I'll just come out and say it - for a language that was designed for
as much for embedded applications as for anything, it seems to be
maddeningly difficult to actually get Ada on a modest embedded
platform.  By modest I mean low-end 32 bits, no MMU.  ARM7 or Cortex
Mx would be my first choice.  I can be up and running on such a
platform with C and a tasking library in a day (Rowley Crossworks,
nice package).  Why can't I do the same with Ada?  Or rather, to avoid
making this about me, why can't an embedded programmer - student,
hobbyist or professional - who's heard about Ada and wants to give it
a spin, including hard-realtime concurrency, just do it?

If Ada fans (I include myself) want to see Ada get more exposure, this
seems like not only a desirable step but a necessary one.  I can run C
on a thousand such boards, and I can't (AFAIK) run Ada on one.

Maybe this is all available, and I just haven't found out where.  Then
that's a problem too, but I'll be happy to hear about it.

All comments welcome.