Re: New to ada, a few questions

[Adrian Hoe <mailbox@*nospam*adrianhoe.com>]

akhar wrote:

>>* Ada provides calling conventions and several useful conversions
>>   for calling functions compiled in C. You cannot use stdio.h in Ada.
>>   Ada does not understand C source syntax, and Ada has no standard
>>   preprocessor.
>>
> this means I have to link to  a DLL ?
> 
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>>* Interfacing with C++ or objective C is possible. The simplest way
>>   is to treat them both as C programs. More complex approaches are
>>   somewhat compiler specific.
>>
> same thing here?
> 
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>>* Ada is available for embedded systems, but not for 8 bit
>>
> microcontrollers.
> where ca I get more info on this?
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>>* Ada "threading" works very well. It is actually defined in the more
>>   general terms of concurrent programming, and is often implemented
>>   using threads. Compared to Java, Ada's concurrency model is extremely
>>   robust and sophisticated.
>>
> Tell me more about concurrent programming, how does it interface to the OS
> threading model. I read this is the main reason it is used for realtime
> applications , but cannot find any tutorials.
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> 
>>I hope you have pleasant experiences learning Ada.
>>
> Me too
> 
> 
>>Jim Rogers
>>
>>
> 
> Sephane
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> 

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