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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
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David Kristola wrote:
> 
> Soon i'll be picking a microcontroller for a robot project.  While i'm
> sure i would have no problem learning PIC Basic or Interactive C, i
> would prefer to work in Ada, or a subset of Ada.  Is there an Ada
> subset compiler out there for any microcontrollers?

There's always the Lego Mindstorms subset described in a recent Ada
Letters article (2000 Sep). You can find it online (PDF) at

http://www.acm.org/sigada/ada_letters/sept2000/index.htm