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From: KK6GM <mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:09:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 14, 7:00=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:15:22 -0700 (PDT), KK6GM wrote:
> > IMO, if an embedded engineer can try out Ada's tasking and realtime
> > features on a typical piece of hardware, they'll be sold.
>
> And Ada's fixed-point arithmetic. People are writing everything first in
> double and then run monstrous tests in order to verify that the system's
> behaviour wouldn't change when double is replaced by a home-brewed intege=
r
> emulation of fixed point. In Ada one could just define the target type
> right from the start and spare all the mess.

Definitely agree - Ada's fixed-point is a hidden gem for embedded
programming.  It makes me crazy that the industry has ignored Ada the
way it has.  But the tool vendors haven't made much effort that I can
see to change things either.