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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92892151eecb310d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-18 15:04:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3C47375B.8060604@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:04:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.220.65.223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1011395060 192.220.65.223 (Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:04:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:04:20 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19083 Date: 2002-01-18T23:04:20+00:00 List-Id: On 18 Jan 2002, Dale Pontius wrote: > In article <3C47375B.8060604@worldnet.att.net>, > Jim Rogers writes: > > Dale Pontius wrote: > > > >> I am taking up some new work, and would like to do it in Ada. However > >> there is a strong 'Do it in C so others can pick it up' bias, which I > >> guess makes some sense. So I'd like to do my development in Ada, and Fuggedaboutit. Better to just use some decent C libraries http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/cii and a tool like splint http://www.splint.org/ to make your C as clean and type safe as possible. > > Actually, it makes no sense, but opening that can or worms begins the > > language war. If a person is a competent C programmer he or she should > > be able to learn a new language with minimal effort. My own experience > > is that it was easier to learn Ada, knowing C first, than it was to > > read and understand a lot of C programs. I agree completely with Jim Rogers, but getting an organization to adopt a language because one programmer likes it is nearly impossible. > Doesn't matter. This is a rather conservative area, and "C is the way > to program, though perhaps C++ or Java would be OK." Note that this is > also not a programming area, it's silicon design. Sometimes you have > to turn part-time programmer to get the silicon out. This is one of > those. There are lots of C (and C++) as HDL tools floating about too. None for Ada. -- Brian