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From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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On Jun 21, 7:23=A0am, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But I think one practical selling point, to achieve a
> "comfort level", is to show them examples of how Ada can
> interface with C. =A0This way, whether they actually
> need to call C routines or not, they will have the comfort
> of knowing that they can, with little difficulty.

Hopefully this won't sound like heresy to Ada folks.

 May I suggest you start your design in Ada. Start with Ada as the
programming-in-the-large model and show how you can easily reuse
existing C functions when necessary or have some components developed
in C for those not willing to learn a new language.

Finding inexpensive Ada combined with C cross-compilers for certain
CPU targets may be an issue.