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,df6b9475ff19c894 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded References: <1124485055.715288.205290@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1124485055.715288.205290@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <6yxNe.9353$RS.363@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:35:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.168.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1124508930 4.240.168.163 (Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:35:30 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:35:30 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4209 Date: 2005-08-20T03:35:30+00:00 List-Id: Lanarcam wrote: > The usual way is to select a microcontroller with the required > I/O and based on the complexity some amount of RAM and ROM. > > You often choose a microcontroller from a family you are > familiar with. You then select an OS or no OS, depending > on the requirements. That's the usual way, but that's not necessarily a good way. A better way is to choose a suitable language, then choose the hardware to suit the language choice. Since Ada's about the only thing around that was designed for embedded systems, an unbiased selection of a suitable language will usually choose Ada. However, even if you do it the other way around, there's at least one compiler that produces ANSI C as its intermediate language, so you can always choose Ada. -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33