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: 2003-01-20 14:52:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!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: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:47:48 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <3E2C7C94.9D7ED14@t-online.de> References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1043103032 06 15306 srzYEvKbSSaJV5 030120 22:50:32 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:33255 Date: 2003-01-20T23:47:48+01:00 List-Id: karl bowl schrieb: > 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). A friend of mine works in the embedded area and he is using Modula-2. (www.pmsgmbh.de) I often tried to get him to Ada, but there are far less Ada-tools than Modula-tools, and the prices for Ada are far beyond of what he could spend. > 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. Do you want say, Modula has _no_ strong typing? Or do I missunderstand you? > The price is important for us but as less important as the point mentioned > before. See above. > Nic Why Nic and not Karl?