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-Thread: 103376,593bd03cd5bc0b74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr22.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Medical instruments don't use Ada X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.134.100.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr22.news.prodigy.net 1177305265 ST000 70.134.100.216 (Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:14:25 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:14:25 EDT Organization: AT&T http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: SCSYASBEQJV]SQ@[EZOD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:14:37 -0800 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15231 Date: 2007-04-22T22:14:37-08:00 List-Id: "Justin Gombos" wrote in message news:l2VWh.4409$0d2.1330@trndny02... >A technical recruiter for the medical devices industry told me a few > months ago he had never even heard of Ada. He's been recruiting in > the medical industry for 25 years. He operates near the west coast of > the U.S. I was curious if you folks knew of any Ada driven medical > devices - and in what country such development takes place. > I used to know a guy who had a small company specializing in the creation of software for medical instruments on microcontrollers. For the most part these were computers such as the I-8051, eight bit micros that had very little primary memory, and did a small number of functions. In this environment, Ada may not be the best alternative. In fact, this man, and his other programmers, used Assembler for most of their programming. For his group, C was not used much, and C++ was pretty much out of the question. Java was nowhere to be seen. I have not been in contact with him for about twelve years, but I do know that I-8501 and similar microcontrollers are still used in a lot of single-purpose systems, including medical equipment. They are really cheap to use in mass produced equipment. There was a correspondent in this forum about ten years ago who was exploring the potential for Ada in those kinds of systems. I don't think he got very far. Also, there are no compilers in place to support the kinds of processors used in microcontroller medical systems. Richard Riehle