From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd2f984f8ef238d1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6bd4a3ac-1717-417b-88c8-cac9331eb68a@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <37da1783-b355-4d43-a9a8-7f0d4ba4da9c@t13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.216.160.90 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279088831 31276 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2010 06:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.216.160.90; posting-account=H7NWPAoAAABNzgi4DMy1pgNsNq9QU0H_ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12413 Date: 2010-07-13T23:27:10-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 13, 10:33=A0pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > On 07/13/2010 09:55 PM, use...@scriptoriumdesigns.com wrote: > > > > > If Ada fans (I include myself) want to see Ada get more exposure, this > > seems like not only a desirable step but a necessary one. =A0I can run = C > > on a thousand such boards, and I can't (AFAIK) run Ada on one. > > I can get Ada on all of them: Sofcheck's Ada compiler that produces ANSI = C as > its intermediate language. > > http://sofcheck.com/products/adamagic.html > Yes, AdaMagic is on my definitely-check-out list, but does it actually address the audience I'm talking about? Can a personal copy be had for e.g. the $150 I spent on the Rowley tools? And even that's pushing it for students and hobbyists. And what about concurrency? How does AdaMagic provide for that? I don't see anything on their website that addresses that question.