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: 103376,3025dd6d917b499c X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.75.39 with SMTP id z7mr4572912pav.26.1349751797080; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: t10ni23656707pbh.0!nntp.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain References: <38af7fb8-b0a4-4a31-87aa-b7b698cc89c3@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:03:15 -0400 Message-ID: <85k3v0jqj0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rdYORI4F8w6vkooA4u0S22ZKxh0= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: d6613507393f4e029e66122204 X-Received-Bytes: 1259 Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-10-08T23:03:15-04:00 List-Id: Patrick writes: > I think Ada is the best language ever. I have a subset I like now(just > 95 really ) and I find it so easy to read other peoples Ada code. > > However.. I am I think all this goodness has come with a price. A > difficult to implement language. > > I wanted to use it for embedded design(as in baremetal) but no free of > cost version lets me do that. I don't understand. If your baremetal board is running a processor that GNAT GPL supports, why can't you use that? -- -- Stephe