Re: Newbee question

["Eric Robert" <synapzzz@hotmail.com>]

Well... Not that long ago: On some new PIC18FXX microprocessors with about
10 time less memory. You say: within 8us... sounds impressive... Wow! I'm
impressed! -- It depends on what you have to do and it depends on your clock
speed! 8us is really bad on some microprocessors. So, state your CPU and its
clock to get me the impression that 8us is impressive. But please... don't
try to impress newbees like me ;-)

I guess my point is Ada is 'restrictive' (NOT more readable -- Why is that?)
and that it can be of some help for big team of people that don't
communicate with each others. But when your CPU have less than 100K of RAM
and you're on a 'big' team: well... I guess the debate over Ada is
useless... How many of you guys are needed to program a chip with less than
100K of RAM? Hope that this doesn't fall in the 'big team' argument.

"John McCabe" <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3dfda848.4482755@news.demon.co.uk...
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:49:02 -0500, "Eric Robert"
> <synapzzz@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Well, yes and no. I am not a student anymore and I know quite a few
> >languages. But not ADA even if I hear of it when I was a student at the
> >University.
>
> You mightlike to call it Ada ;-)
>
> >I must say that, being a senior C++ programmer, ADA seems to me like a
> >language that isn't very usefull & efficient. Sorry to say but it seems
like
> >a languages for dummies!
>
> It is a language that is designed to be safe and readable. It is more
> often than not used on large scale programs where many developers may
> be involved and which require high reliability. With staff turnover
> etc, its readability ensures that maintenance of the code doesn't pose
> too many problems.
>
> > I when to the library to get a book and now I can
> >do usefull stuff
>
> >The web is not crowded with ADA samples & resources so I
> >needed a book!
>
> What's wrong with http://www.adapower.com for example? Have you looked
> at http://www.adaic.org? Where can you download the ANSI C++ Standard?
>
> >I can't belive this... The community is much smaller than
> >what I'm used to (C and C++).
>
> Of course it is, but you'll probably find it is much more helpful
> towards someone with the right attitude, and there is far less noise
> than in any of the C/C++ based newsgroups.
>
> >But still : it was worth to learn. It maybe
> >good for learning and research (i.e. when you're NOT a experienced
> >programmmer) but not for real life usage when CPU & ressources are
critical.
>
> In fact it is very good where CPU & resources are critical. When was
> the last time you built a system in C++ based on a Mil-Std-1750A
> processor (1.3MIPS) using 48kBytes of RAM and requiring an action to
> be performed in response to an interrupt within 8us?
>
> >Sorry but learning it doesn't make me a believer ;-)
>
> Only experience can do that, but you'll get there.
>
>
> Best Regards
> John McCabe
>
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