Re: C vs. ada for embeded system

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:23:32 +0100, abcd wrote:

> why ada is better of  "C" language  for embeded system?

That depends on many factors. What worked for us was:

1. Portability. We develop and test under Windows. The target platform is
used only incidentally. We use same code for both, no single line of
preprocessor;

2. Language standard;

3. Tasking support (yes, we needed tasks);

4. OOPL;

5. Excellent support (AdaCore).

Disadvantages:

1. Damn difficult to get a compiler;

2. Tool chain (IDE, debugger etc) for Ada is not that good. Well not bad
when compared with Workbench/Eclipse, but still no match to Visual Studio;

3. Initial costs are much higher than for C.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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