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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada on Raspberry Pi: new article in MagPi issue 8
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:47:23 +0000
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On 02/12/2012 17:19, in article k9g2js$kf$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Luke A.
Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:

> On 2012-12-02, Rego, P. <pvrego@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had a very happy surprise today when I opened the MagPi issue 8 and found
>> the Ada article "Beginning Ada" by Luke Guest. And it's the second part,
>> started in issue 6 (which I had not read til today...). Congratulations!
> 
> Thanks, the idea was to get Ada into the minds of kids reading that magazine
> as an additional language and to prove it can be used for beginners with no
> programming experience whatsoever.
> 
> I'm also trying to think of a good project to document in the next articles, I
> have two ideas, but not sure about them. The aim would be to show the use of:
> 
> 1) packages
> 2) possibly separates for platform dependencies
> 3) GNAT project files & Makefiles
> 4) Representation clauses for mapping to hardware or C API's
> 5) Maybe tasking
> 
> Any ideas? It has to have a cool factor. Mine are:
> 
> 1) ZX Spectrum emulator. or
> 2) A language compiler going from source -> ELF/ARM binary.

A KDF9 emulator?

   <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9>

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Bill Findlay
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