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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-21 10:58:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newscore.gigabell.net!bignews.mediaways.net!newsfeed.nettuno.it!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!news-out.tin.it!news-in.tin.it!news1.tin.it.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B59BFCF.1840615E@tin.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: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? References: <3b4c14a7.5812546@news.cis.dfn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:48:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.216.148.124 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@tin.it X-Trace: news1.tin.it 995737734 212.216.148.124 (Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:48:54 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:48:54 MET DST Organization: TIN Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10404 Date: 2001-07-21T17:48:54+00:00 List-Id: Why not porting Ada to some popular microprocessor for 'small' embedded systems - after all is what Ada was created for. This marker is 99.9% C, and there are a ** LOT ** of such systems all around. Being in this busines since last year, I searched for Ada on such small micros (8 to 16 bits) and found only C (The Lego I saw mentioned in some posting here some time ago seems more didactical than a production-grade system). Anyway development is done on PC, and only the executable code is downloaded into the micro, so it does not seem to be any restriction on the compiler complexity. So why not ? Gigi Piacentini