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: 103376,912597791e813f68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-18 07:26:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula Date: 18 Jan 2003 09:26:22 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1042903483 22146 192.135.80.34 (18 Jan 2003 15:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33180 Date: 2003-01-18T09:26:22-06:00 List-Id: In article <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de>, Alfred Hilscher writes: > Assume you have to program a brake control for car, would you do it in > Ada? Then I would like to know which tools you use. The systems I know > are based on microcontrollers HC11/HC12 or 8051. _I_ don't know any > Ada-compiler for these chips. While there are a lot of C develop > environments, there are only very few for Modula, and none for Ada. > Please correct me if I'm wrong. The SofCheck AdaMagic compiler is available in a form that uses ANSI C as an intermediate language. Thus any target machine for which you have an ANSI C compiler can be programmed using Ada. Using this method one automatically takes advantage of whatever peephole optimization the hardware-specific C compiler provides. http://www.sofcheck.com