Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system?

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On Jul 17, 9:29 am, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> Is there, in your view, a way to approach the subject as
> a cooperative effort, touchy as it may be, with the simpler
> goal of gradually improving an AVR run-time system and the tools?
> Maybe making it portable where possible so more vendors
> become interested?

I think getting an easy-to-use Ada on AVR (a nice and easy to obtain
chip, and available in DIP for budget prototyping) would be great.
Any form of tasking would probably be too much to ask, but maybe not
on the bigger members of the family.

Every bit as desirable IMO would be Ada on ARM7 and/or Cortex Mx, with
Ravenscar tasking.  The possibilities with Ada on e.g. http://mbed.org/nxp/lpc1768/
are very enticing.

Whatever the software engineering advantages of Ada (and they are
many), I think the high-level concurrency might be the single biggest
initial attraction to a lot of embedded folks.

> If PR noise and bureaucratic overhead have shown to be
> counterproductive, maybe occasional produce from here
> and there is more effective in helping the effort catch on.
> An AVR teaching environment could then become visible even
> on the radar of those departments where a preference is
> for more abstract computer models.

Call it the AAA project, AVR, ARM and Ada.