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: 103376,912597791e813f68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-18 06:19:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:14:00 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de> References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1042899400 07 20497 4aSYEpZVSAAdCS 030118 14:16:40 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 320001779794-0001@t-dialin.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33175 Date: 2003-01-18T15:14:00+01:00 List-Id: karl bowl schrieb: > Assume you have to design an embedded sytem, for instance a > movementcontroller for a vehicle. In this way you have to decide for a > programming language. Would you prefer Modula2 or Ada95 or anything else? > > Nic I have a question to you, too. Assume you have to program a brake control for car, would you do it in Ada? Then I would like to know which tools you use. The systems I know are based on microcontrollers HC11/HC12 or 8051. _I_ don't know any Ada-compiler for these chips. While there are a lot of C develop environments, there are only very few for Modula, and none for Ada. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The next point is: C systems are cheap and even free available. Modula systems are expensive. But - Ada prices are far beyond from good and bad. Have you ever heard the prices from Green Hills for example? A small company with five to ten people can not buy it. And what I've heard about ACT-prices, they seem not be suitable, too. Embedded systems in non military environment have not some k-dollars available for sw-tools.