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From: "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and SBC's, was: Re: Restructuring of Ada
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:35:55 -0400
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The Lego thingie was discussed here and appeared in Ada Letters (SIGAda/ACM)
and I think it is a good thing. There may be a few SBCs out there that offer
Ada. Green Hills would be one place to look since they tend to specialize in
embedded compilers. However, every time I've hit a website that had a nice,
cute little board that didn't cost much and could be used for a number of
clever little projects, invariably they offer a PC based C compiler &
development tools. How to get Ada more widespread in that market? I don't
know. Perhaps it involves figuring out who makes the development kits
(they're not all built by the SBC manufacturers, I'll bet) and see if they
could be talked into partnering to offer an Ada front end? If they thought
it wouldn't cost them a fortune & there were enough users out there
interested, they might see it as a product distinction quality.

MDC
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"Simon Clubley" <simon_clubley@remove_me.excite.com-Earth.UFP> wrote in
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>
> So far I haven't found any. :-( I am always interested in hearing about
any
> combined SBC/development kits with Ada support, which are at prices that
an
> individual can afford. (At the moment, I'm looking at RTEMS and then
MaRTE.)
>
> Simon.
>
> PS: I was amused to see that an Ada environment has been created for some
Lego
> toy called Mindstorms; it would be nice to see the same development for a
> SBC. :-)
>
>
> --
> Simon Clubley, simon_clubley@remove_me.excite.com-Earth.UFP
> Worrying idea #101: What if Microsoft goes into the Ada compiler business
?