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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey
Date: 2000/04/28
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In article <39075E96.BC16B5D8@earthlink.net>,
	"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net> wrote:

>> I note that so far our ballot-box stuffing effort has resulted in a
>> result of 50.1% Ada utilization. :-)
>
>   I was slightly surprised by the popularity of Forth and C++, is it
>possible that someone else is ballot box stuffing?

Robert,

It is important to realize that a high percentage of ESP readers
are programming microcontrollers such as the 8051 series.  For this
processor two of the more popular programming languages are Assembler
and Forth.  The latter, Forth, is actually quite apprproriate when one
is concerned with both efficiency and close mapping to the architecture.

As an additional point of interest, at one time, the largest Forth 
Interest Group (FIG), was in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).  Also,
Forth enthusiasts, after considerable debate for obvious reasons, 
decided not to call their organization the Forth Users Group.

Richard Riehle