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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-21 08:38:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <0Bh57.24338$JN6.5004065@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> Subject: Device drivers in Ada (was Re: Ada The Best Language?) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:38:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.56.237 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 995729901 24.248.56.237 (Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:38:21 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:38:21 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10399 Date: 2001-07-21T15:38:21+00:00 List-Id: "McDoobie" wrote in message news:0Bh57.24338$JN6.5004065@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com... > I use Ada95 because for a lot of jobs it's the right tool for me. I write > applications using Ada95, I do device drives with Assembler Just out of curiosity... have you ever tried writing a device driver in Ada? My experience is that Ada is really well-suited for device-level programming, and I'm curious about the experiences of others. Why do you write device drivers in assembler instead of a higher-level language? Just curious, I'm not being judgemental or anything... -- mark