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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/26 Message-ID: <39A7C06B.8A0393E4@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 662707478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> <4Oxp5.428$Ze5.13712@nnrp3.sbc.net> <39A6B3FF.73538A0E@acm.org> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Accept-Language: en X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" <@mail.mindspring.com> (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 26 Aug 2000 13:05:13 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-26T13:05:13+00:00 List-Id: Pat Rogers wrote: > True, but I work in embedded/real-time systems for the most part (as > do you, if memory serves), and my passions run accordingly. One could > argue that today's "desktop language" might become tomorrow's > "embedded systems language", and then I should care a great deal more! > That's happening with C++ now, and will happen with Java eventually. > Neither are technologically supportable substitutions for Ada 95, > IMHO, but technology doesn't drive the decisions much. > > We're thinking along the same lines. > Great minds do think alike, don't they? :-) Yes, I have done considerable embedded/realtime work where you typically don't find development kits with tons of pre-packaged software to do most of your job. When you're developing most/all of the code going into some app from bottom-dead-center, Ada is going to win out over a number of other languages. Of course in the embedded/realtime arena, there can still be issues concerning development environments. The first being can you get a compiler for the target machine at all? Sometimes Ada loses out in this domain because of lack of a compiler or, if a compiler exists, there is a lack of the surrounding tools needed for embedded programming. Often C wins for lack of a competitor! MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Take away the punchbowl just when the party gets going" -- William McChesney Martin, Former Fed chairman, explaining what a sound central bank must always do. ======================================================================