Re: Ada and embedded applications

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Chris Campbell" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:LTQS6.29382$%_1.5022327@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com...
: Hi,
:
: On another group a discussion about various languages errupted and it took
a
: while to get anything positive out of it(it's started as the old "my
language is
: best" debate).  Now the discussion seems to be focussed on distance from
: hardware, like C being relatively close to hardware.  This is largely
irrelevant
: background.
:
: One poster claimed that Ada was not used in some embedded devices because
of
: memory overheads for exception handling.  Claiming it was used in embedded
: devices in industries that had budgets that supported it (e.g. the
aerospace
: industry).
:
: Is this correct or is it rubbish?

Rubbish.

: Also does exception handling in Ada really
: have a large overhead?  (This is probably an implementation issue but is
their
: anything in the language that makes exception handling bulky?).

Not for most of the embedded Ada code I've written.