Re: Ada for a Fortran programmer

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

GianLuigi Piacentini wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm a Fortran 9X programmer, and I will probably pick a job requiring to
> program some embedded system (no rocket science, I was told one of that
> system will control a sterilization device).  I was told that C is the
> only high level language available for the (at this writing yet
> unspecified) micro in such system.  But for what I know Ada should be a
> better choice ...
> So:
> 1) There are Ada tutorials geared towards Fortran programmers ?
> 2) Are there Ada compilers/translators with a C output for situation in
> which C is the only high level language available ?

As pointed out by others, we do have an Ada compiler
that generates optimized ANSI C as its intermediate code.
This has been used successfully on SPARC Solaris, and
on ADI's SHARC DSP.  This technology is readily adaptable
to other hosts/targets, so long as the existing C compiler
is relatively robust.

> 
> Thanks in advance for your reply
> Gigi Piacentini

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