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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,641660bd28dd798d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-06 20:50:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!west.cox.net!cox.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed0.news.atl.earthlink.net!news.atl.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Ada Development Tools Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:52:54 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3D002E16.C790FC50@adaworks.com> References: <3CFBC246.7020201@worldnet.att.net> <3CFE29BB.A7D22E77@NOSPAM.visteon.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.6c.65 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 7 Jun 2002 03:50:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25431 Date: 2002-06-07T03:50:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > I've seen Ada for 16-bit processors, but you're point is taken. Most Ada > implementations target 32-bit or bigger machines and while this is nice for > some of the more grandiose projects, its not where most of the little > commercial things live. And of course, even if it were possible to get an > Ada compiler to target some small 8-bit processor, we'd still be stuck with > that chicken-and-egg problem. Maybe it's time for RR Software to resurrect that 8-bit Ada compiler they developed back in the Eighties. Richard Riehle