Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in
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> I could imagine Ada being popular in electrical engineering departments if
> there were a convenient and inexpensive (maybe free?) Ada environment for
> playing around with embedded computing. It would have to work "off the
> shelf" with readily available hardware so that some prof could build a
> class/lab around it & students could afford to play with it on their own.
I
> am thinking of Dr. McCormick's model railroad class or the Lego robot
> discussed here a while ago. If either of these was packaged as "An
embedded
> programming course in a bag" so that a prof could just pick it up and
start
> teaching it, this might go a long way toward encouraging Ada as an
> educational tool as well as a practical tool for building real-world
> systems.
>

I have been thinking that GNAT/RTEMS might in the not-too-distant future
provide just such an environment.  Unfortunately the two are somewhat out of
sync right now.  I belive the situation will be much better when GCC 3.0 (or
3.1) comes out later this year (hopefully).

I envision old PC's as an ideal target for students wanting to play around
with embedded work since 486's are, at least in my area, cheap and easy to
come by since nobody wants them any more.

SteveD

> (Does anyone smell commercial possibilities here? :-)
>
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> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrn997li7.193.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:27:16 +0100, Frank wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >Are there Ada courses on NTNU?
> >
> > Not that I know of. The Computer Science dep uses Java and C++ I think,
> > but perhaps the Electronics department use some Ada. Sadly the
> > introductory computer courses are now in Fortran and Java. :-(
> >
> > --
> > Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
> >                  �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�
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