Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

We could debate the exact numbers forever. I wasn't claiming that this 
was an exact representation but rather illustrative of how an industry 
works. I used to program digital TV boxes and the company sold *lots* of 
units. But the staff of people actually programming the boxes was 
relatively small (and getting smaller - which is why I left! :-) The 
point being that just because there might be a lot of HC11 processors 
sold, it doesn't follow that there will be lots of HC11 Ada compilers sold.

If someone wanted to push Ada in the embedded market, I'd think the best 
way to do it would be to actually be in the board business. Design a 
board for a specific part of the market, target Ada to it, provide a 
whole suite of Ada related development tools to make the job of 
programming it a snap and then sell boards/development kits. "Sure, you 
could use C to program my spiffy little board, but it would take you 
longer because all the critical leverage items are all Ada related..."

MDC

Bernd Specht wrote:
> 
> Well, if there were someone who sells *millions* on  HC11/8051 products and 
> needs only *one* compiler, then I would agree. But - in this range it is 
> often the case, that a small company sells a few hundrets or thousands 
> units, but *every* developer has its own develop environment. So to sell 
> *millions* of units, there would be a lot of companies, who need a lot of 
> development tools (_not only_ compiler, but the _whole_ toolchain). But - 
> toolset must not be expensive (if one sells a few thousand boards, they 
> won't be willing to pay $1000_000 for the tools).
> 
> 

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