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From: "Tor Fredrik Aas" <tfaas@sensewave.com>
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"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
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> David Kristola wrote:
> >
> > Soon i'll be picking a microcontroller for a robot project.  While i'm
> > sure i would have no problem learning PIC Basic or Interactive C, i
> > would prefer to work in Ada, or a subset of Ada.  Is there an Ada
> > subset compiler out there for any microcontrollers?
>
> There's always the Lego Mindstorms subset described in a recent Ada
> Letters article (2000 Sep). You can find it online (PDF) at
>
> http://www.acm.org/sigada/ada_letters/sept2000/index.htm

AFAIK the RCX uses a Hitachi H8 controller. I might be possible to run the
same code on larger controllers, even SH-8.

-f