Re: How many different processors do you use?

["Greg Martin" <gregm@netidea.com>]

Is there a reason this continues to be (or ever was) posted to comp.lang.c?
This doesn't have anything to do with Standard C the topic of comp.lang.c
Regards,
Greg Martin
Markus Kuhn wrote in message <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>...
>In article <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, muddy_buddy@my-deja.com writes:
>|> BTW I know Ada and it is better than C, though the tools aren't too
>|> hot.
>
>Oh, you definitely should have a look at Ada again! Things have
>improved *dramatically* in the last 2-3 years. The old 1983 Ada
>language (which was quite nice but had a few nasty quirks)
>was significantly revised in 1995 and has now become Ada95 with
>full object-oriented programming support, Unicode support,
>better task synchronisation, much cleaner semantics, standardized
>interface to C, and much more good stuff. There are now several
>low-cost and freeware production-quality Ada95 compilers
>and development kits available, and there is a very rapidly growing
>Internet community around them. For example, there is an
>excellent GNU Ada95 compiler now freely available on all
>the usual major platforms. There are also several companies
>who are happy to provide you excellent commercial support for
>this compiler, including porting it to new embedded
>platforms if you should need so. You can easily call the existing
>infrastructure of C libraries from Ada directly, and many
>popular libraray interfaces have already been ported to Ada
>and many others are being worked on.
>
>You *really* should have a look again at Ada95 and the tools
>available in 1999 and forget *everything* that you knew about the
>popularity of Ada before 1997. Ada95 has in the meantime
>become one of the most exciting programming languages on the
>market. Ada95 combines the comfort and safety of Java with the
>performance and low-level access of C/C++ in a very
>interesting way. The syntax of Ada95 should be very intuitive
>to anyone who was ever exposed to Pascal, but it is better
>designed (no begins after ifs, procedure name optionally
>repeated on procedure ends, powerful array and record constant
>expressions, functions capable of returning variable length
>objects without heap allocation, and many other goodies.)
>
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/linux-ada/
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ada.html
>
>GNU Ada95 is the new language of choice for performance-hungry
>former Jabba programmers.
>
>Markus
>
>--
>Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
>Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>