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On 1/27/2015 4:18 AM, Brian Drummond wrote:

>
> Cumulatively, that's what it'll take to get us out of the mess you so
> correctly say we're in.
>
> - Brian
>


I certainly agree with Brian and David on this issue.  If we believe 
that Ada is truly a great language for embedded applications, we must 
all work to help it succeed in that area. Most users will use what is 
easiest and what others are using to get things done fast and cheap but 
fail to see the true software engineering aspects of software 
development.  Ada is the correct language for software engineering in my 
opinion so I am willing to work with it in spite of the obstacles.

I was happy to see the AdaCore release of the ARM M3/M4 support and 
jumped in to start using it.  I published an article on my early work 
with it in Electronic Design 
(http://electronicdesign.com/dev-tools/armed-and-ready) a few months ago 
and since then I have implemented it on about a dozen different ARM 
M3/M4 boards and created drivers to a number of peripherals (such as 
graphic LCD displays) and implemented support for more of the on-chip 
peripherals that AdaCore did not provide.  I have had to struggle though 
a lot of C code (which I dislike) to redo things in Ada but it is fun 
and educational and to me, worth the effort.
It is like if someone hands you a really nice toolkit - you just want to 
go build something!

Jerry