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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, HK_RANDOM_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92640d662fc31a03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 11:28:56 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.infostrada.it!news.infostrada.it!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AF99B13.18F0EE68@libero.it> From: GianLuigi Piacentini X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:29:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.24.3.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@libero.it X-Trace: news.infostrada.it 989432972 151.24.3.246 (Wed, 09 May 2001 20:29:32 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 20:29:32 MET DST Organization: [Infostrada] Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7394 Date: 2001-05-09T18:29:32+00:00 List-Id: "Beard, Frank" wrote: > I thought Ada was designed to be a general purpose language, > and among those purposes was strong support for embedded > systems. > rest of post omitted I rather find that Ada compilers are lacking coverage of small microprocessors (PIC, 68HC11, ST11 to name a few). All what you can find on them is ASM and C. Then if you need a companion program on a PC (perhaps a board tester) the natural choice of language will be C, simply because of some 'commonalty of languages'. So a not-too-clear language will spread in spite of well-crafted ones. So more school and universities make courses on C, abandoning other languages, on the ground that it is the most frequent languages. So university libraries will stock only C books (Milan CLUP library: a shelf of C/C++, some C#, a few Delphi, 3 Fortran books, no Ada at all). So many people start coding mess-programs (I recently met a whole family of poorly coded C), simply because some common book on C do not emphasize enough good coding practices... I would like to see things changed, and Ada even on small (well not-too-much-small) micros. Perhaps better and safer programs will surface, and school managers will choose clearer languages. Apologizing for my english G.L. Piacentini