From: Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 05:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-08T05:53:24-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4579b1f-a3b9-4e07-9e48-726265e73cad@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1847309061394574355.897602rm-host.bauhaus-maps.arcor.de@news.arcor.de>
On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3:50:15 PM UTC-5, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> . . .
> When writing low level software in Ada, you can set the third bit of
> something
> by assigning True to a component of a packed array. In C, the main
> contender,
> you can pride yourself on having mastered C's shifting and masking.
> (Problem solving provides for combinatorial exercise already. Why more?)
>
> . . .
>
> A reasonably small Ada, therefore, could not
> be just like some other language, I think.
And don't forget the ability to specify the address of a variable -- Sooo much easier and clearer than using offsets and address arithmetic!
-- Eryndlia
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2013-06-14 15:39 Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA Max Herman
2013-06-14 17:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-17 15:51 ` Max Herman
2013-06-17 17:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-14 17:45 ` G.B.
2013-06-14 20:52 ` Simon Wright
2013-06-14 20:16 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2013-06-14 20:51 ` Simon Wright
2013-06-17 16:00 ` Max Herman
2013-06-17 0:38 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-06-17 16:05 ` Max Herman
2013-07-04 16:13 ` Lucretia
2013-06-17 6:55 ` Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for Ada Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-17 16:15 ` Max Herman
2013-06-26 23:58 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-06-17 21:46 ` Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA Marcus F
2013-07-01 18:45 ` mjsilva
2013-07-01 19:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-01 23:35 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 7:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-02 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 9:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-02 14:50 ` Shark8
2013-07-02 15:08 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 16:53 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-02 22:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 0:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 19:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 19:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-08 12:53 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen [this message]
2013-07-03 21:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 22:02 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-04 16:02 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-05 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 1:01 ` mjsilva
2013-07-03 2:41 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 7:17 ` Shark8
2013-07-02 16:52 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 19:29 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 20:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 12:08 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-03 12:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 16:56 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 22:21 ` mjsilva
2013-07-03 7:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 8:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-03 11:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 12:49 ` G.B.
2013-07-03 16:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 14:50 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 10:44 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-02 13:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 13:59 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-02 14:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 16:45 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 16:57 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 14:55 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 15:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 15:58 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 16:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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