From: "Chip and Allie Orange" <acorange@comcast.net>
Subject: GNAT verses A# for soft-realtime system
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:38:56 -0400
Date: 2007-04-07T18:38:56-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4uudnaJ7BJK8g4XbnZ2dnUVZ_t-mnZ2d@comcast.com> (raw)
Hi all,
I have a computer science degree from many years back, but have worked in
system admin and database programming mostly since.
I now have an opportunity for a hobby project combining two of my interests
that I've always wanted to explore: learning Ada and programming a robot.
I can purchase a Windows-based PC robot for $5k, and I'd like to learn to
program it to do autonomous functions (including realtime image analysis).
I have a choice of GNAT or A# for my programming environment.
I don't know much about any of this, but especially about the limitations of
A#. I'm also concerned if over-all, the A#/.net environment would yield
significantly slower code, as this is a low-power processor on a mini-itx
MB, and so CPU cycles are likely to be at a premium.
At this point I could use some advice on which Ada to use. There's some
advantage in my using the .net environment in that some software I'd like to
use is available as .net controls. On the other hand, some open source
software such as ImageMagic and FANN are available as standard Windows DLLs,
and might be harder to work with from .net. I'm not sure if the Ada
standard implemented by A# is as up-to-date as that of GNAT (GNAT seems to
have more support, even for the free version).
Thanks for any information/help.
Chip Orange
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-07 22:38 Chip and Allie Orange [this message]
2007-04-08 0:29 ` GNAT verses A# for soft-realtime system Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-08 15:11 ` Chip and Allie Orange
2007-04-08 18:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-10 21:52 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-09 11:46 ` Rob Veenker
2007-04-09 17:44 ` Chip Orange
2007-04-08 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-08 13:46 ` Pascal Obry
2007-04-09 16:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-08 15:55 ` Chip and Allie Orange
2007-04-09 16:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
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