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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:47:53 -0500
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KK6GM <mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com> writes:

> Are you saying that a relative newcomer to Ada can take a board out of
> its shipping box in the early evening and be running Ada code
> (including tasking - Ravenscar would be fine - and realtime features)
> by later that evening?  I'd sure like to discover the board and
> toolset that allows this, because I'll buy one today.  I know this is
> possible with at least one C/C++ toolset (Rowley Crossworks with its
> included tasking library) because I have done it.

Just to be clear on what you are saying:

1) at the time you did this, you were a newcomer to both C and C++

2) The Rowley Crossworks toolset did not come with support for the board
   you used. 

3) You spent only a few hours writing a board support package for the
   toolset+board combination.

4) The toolset includes a tasking library, which you got working.

If all of that is true, then yes, you can do the same with Ada.

Most people could not. Someone experienced with a particular toolset, and
faced with a new board, could do this, but should expect to take longer,
in any language.

The Ada runtime requires more work than the typical C runtime, because
of tasking, exceptions, fixed point types, and other issues.

-- 
-- Stephe