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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac55ec18f7b0a53c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 19:32:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newscon01.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr16.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications Organization: ex-FlashNet, now Prodigy X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.66.126.236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr16.news.prodigy.com 991794665 6207069 65.66.126.236 (Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:31:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:31:05 EDT Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 02:31:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8205 Date: 2001-06-06T02:31:05+00:00 List-Id: "Chris Campbell" 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.