From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 648916008 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com> <3974EE3D.1F8E016E@silver.jhuapl.edu> <3975C3E6.DF4956F4@silver.jhuapl.edu> <397776F4.EB998A2B@Raytheon.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 964144678 216.215.73.145 (Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:57:58 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:57:58 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Samuel T. Harris" wrote in message news:397776F4.EB998A2B@Raytheon.com... > Ken Garlington wrote: > > > > However, feel free to choose your own path: > > > > (a) I will limit myself to the controllers with native Ada support > > (b) I will target (and maintain) GNAT for any controller selected > > (c) I will assume that any selected controller has a C compiler, and will > > use an Ada-to-C translator > > > > Actually, the path (as you describe above) to which I was > alluding was to initially go with (a) with the knowledge > that I can always switch to (c) if I absolutely need to. > Switching to (c) should have minimal impact on my existing > Ada code (which is a primary concern in such cases). Then you haven't been reading my responses :) (Speaking with the experience of someone who has just gone through what you describe...)