Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system?

["Steve D" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

<usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com> wrote in message 
news:37da1783-b355-4d43-a9a8-7f0d4ba4da9c@t13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> I'll just come out and say it - for a language that was designed for
> as much for embedded applications as for anything, it seems to be
> maddeningly difficult to actually get Ada on a modest embedded
> platform.  By modest I mean low-end 32 bits, no MMU.  ARM7 or Cortex
> Mx would be my first choice.  I can be up and running on such a
> platform with C and a tasking library in a day (Rowley Crossworks,
> nice package).  Why can't I do the same with Ada?  Or rather, to avoid
> making this about me, why can't an embedded programmer - student,
> hobbyist or professional - who's heard about Ada and wants to give it
> a spin, including hard-realtime concurrency, just do it?
>
> If Ada fans (I include myself) want to see Ada get more exposure, this
> seems like not only a desirable step but a necessary one.  I can run C
> on a thousand such boards, and I can't (AFAIK) run Ada on one.
>
> Maybe this is all available, and I just haven't found out where.  Then
> that's a problem too, but I'll be happy to hear about it.
>
> All comments welcome.

The closest I have come is RTEMS http://www.rtems.com.

I haven't looked at it for a while, but there has generally been good Ada 
support.

Regards,
Steve