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Brian Drummond wrote:

> For example if you are interested in robotics you may wish to develop for
> embedded processors, e.g. to read position sensors and control stepper motors
> (or BLDC or induction motors, depending how serious you are!) 
> Of all the small embedded controllers, only one family (the Atmel AVR) has an
> Ada compiler targetting it. (google AVR Ada)

But Ada for Lego Mindstorms is apparently on its way...