Re: Ada as a first language

["Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>]

Brian Gaffney wrote:

> "Tim Rowe" <spamtrap@tgrowe.plus.net> wrote in message
> news:R4idnWGodbdmr1TUnZ2dnUVZ8omWnZ2d@posted.plusnet...
>> Brian Drummond wrote:
>>
>>> For example if you are interested in robotics you may wish to develop
>>> for embedded processors, e.g. to read position sensors and control
>>> stepper motors
>>> (or BLDC or induction motors, depending how serious you are!) Of all the
>>> small embedded controllers, only one family (the Atmel AVR) has an
>>> Ada compiler targetting it. (google AVR Ada)
>>
>> But Ada for Lego Mindstorms is apparently on its way...
> How long has that been on the way?

This time it could be truer. According to some recent posts to the GAP 
mailing list, there's some already functional thing somewhere. It should be 
here, according to the mail I received:

https://www2.adacore.com/gnattracker2/contributions#Labs_Material

but alas, it is not.

Alex.

> 
> There is also a GCC port for 68HC10/12, which contains GNAT (but no
> runtime,
> and last I looked it didn't advertise Ada as working).  I did get it
> working, and built some simple programs.  Unless it's advanced, I wouldn't
> recommend it for a newbie.
> 
> --Brian
> --Chip away the stone Sissaphis, chip away the stone.
> --Make the burden lighter if you must roll that rock alone.