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From: mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com
Subject: Re: Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running ADA
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:38:39 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-09T08:38:39-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81c8e4a2-f0bb-4559-b2b7-0eba08ddca99@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1czx18gollwt5$.n1wi7pmd0bqh$.dlg@40tude.net>

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:51:39 AM UTC-7, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT), mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com
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> wrote:
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> > And these micros continue to have those memory-mapped hardware registers,
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> > and those of us who program these chips deal with those registers all the time.
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> No technology ever dies, it becomes niche. Ada's advantage in the niche is
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> minimal. Its advantage on mainstream SBCs is potentially huge.

But the difference is that nobody is arguing that Ada is not suitable for SBCs.  However, you are dismissing Ada on microcontrollers, of which tens of billions are sold each year (big niche!).  You are making this an either/or question, which it most certainly is not.  How is it that you have been appointed to determine where Ada can be beneficial, and where it cannot?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-09 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-19  7:51 Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running ADA Marcus F
2013-06-19 18:20 ` Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running Ada Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-19 18:59   ` Marcus F
2013-06-19 19:25     ` Marcus F
2013-07-12 20:35     ` Rego, P.
2013-07-12 20:37       ` Rego, P.
2013-07-07  9:16 ` Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running ADA Lucretia
2013-07-07  9:56   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-07 10:58     ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-07 15:00       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-07 16:27         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-08  7:43           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-08 10:54             ` G.B.
2013-07-08 12:14               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-08 12:56                 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-08 14:06                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-08 14:43                     ` G.B.
2013-07-08 17:23                     ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-08 18:55                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 11:53                         ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-09 12:57                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 13:11                             ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-09 20:30                               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-09 22:23                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-10  8:06                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-10 12:25                                 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-10 22:17                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11 16:58                                     ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-07-11 22:07                                       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-08 13:15                 ` G.B.
2013-07-08 13:59                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09  0:53                     ` mjsilva
2013-07-08 20:31             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-08 20:45               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09  0:19                 ` mjsilva
2013-07-09  0:27             ` mjsilva
2013-07-09  7:51               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09  8:33                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-09  9:12                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 11:08                     ` G.B.
2013-07-09 12:28                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 14:20                         ` G.B.
2013-07-09 15:00                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 23:13                             ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-07-09 15:38                 ` mjsilva [this message]
2013-07-09 19:48                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 20:10                   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-09 22:09                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-10 22:21                       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11  6:12                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-11 22:00                           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-10  1:31                     ` mjsilva
2013-07-10  8:17                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-10 22:39                       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-09 13:53     ` Shmuel Metz
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