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On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 6:58:04 PM UTC-4, Jerry wrote:
> On 6/21/2012 3:37 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> >
> > I once knew a C coder, and a mediocre C coder at that, who was coding
> > for pacemakers. I hope I never need one.
> 
> 
> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> How true.  Remember the Therac-25 incident in the 1980's where C pointer 
> problems killed a number of people with huge doses of X-rays?
> 
> Jerry

I develop medical devices.

If Ada has to take root in this world (at least mine), some requirements:
- variety of embedded baremetal targets - ARM, AVR, MSP
- a very easy to use package of software + eval boards + variety of examples. Examples interfacing with standard peripherals - ADC, PWM, SPI etc.
- debugging support.

a bundle around Arduino for example would be a good first step.

This will make it easy to get engineers to try Ada out.

yes. all this can be assembled - but it takes quit a bit of persistence.

If anyone is interested in collaborating on such an effort, I would welcome an opportunity.

Cheers, srini