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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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: 2003-01-20 09:40:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E2C3463.5665C1D9@raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:39:47 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.93.55 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1043084388 147.24.93.55 (Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:39:48 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:39:48 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33245 Date: 2003-01-20T10:39:47-07:00 List-Id: karl bowl wrote: > > I belong to a group of programmers for movement control systems based on > 80x86-Processor (embedded system). > As far as now, we have used pascal 86. But now, we would like to change, > because the tools for sw-development > in this language have been going rare. > There are a group of colleagues, they prefer Modula2. But I think, Modula2 > is not used very often and so there are not > distributions, whitch provides good tools for sw-development (i. e. a source > code debugger for the target system). > Therfore, I am looking for alternatives - i. e. Ada. > Another big point is, that the language we choose, should be a language with > strong type checking. > The price is important for us but as less important as the point mentioned > before. > > Nic We use the DDC-I Ada compiler for a 80x86 target in an embedded system and have been very happy with their tools and support. Take a look at their new SCORE product (http://www.ddci.com/). I think you are right in considering Ada. Best Wishes, Jerry -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation (GPS/INS), Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------