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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry)
Date: 1997/01/07
Date: 1997-01-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E3nG3v.CsE@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5asvku$jtu$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au


In article <5asvku$jtu$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>I've been studying the 8051 recently.
>I've convinced myself that with the aid of one more pragma [%]
>an Ada *subset* can straightforwardly do everything that assembler
>can do.

How would this subset compare to the Ada subset embedded in SPARK?

>...I mean, we're talking
>about systems where the wire would be the most expensive part!

Then why bother using a high-level language at all?  I mean, if the
software is small and cheap enough, then assembly works fine.

- Bob




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-01-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-24  0:00 New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Robert Dewar
1996-12-27  0:00 ` New GNAT ports John Howard
1997-01-07  0:00 ` New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-08  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-11  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-11  0:00         ` Addresses of Subprograms (was: New GNAT ports) Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-13  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-14  0:00             ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-14  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1997-01-15  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1997-01-09  0:00       ` New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Ken Garlington
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-08  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-01-07  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-09  0:00       ` Dr. Peter E. Obermayer
1997-01-08  0:00   ` Karl Cooper
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-09  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-10  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-11  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-13  0:00       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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