Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Bernd Specht" <Bernd.Specht@gmx.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94E678C765E8CBerndSpechtgmxcom@151.189.20.10...
> "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in
> news:c7onju$smf$1@titan.btinternet.com:
>
> > There are GNAT ports to AVR microcontrollers (see
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada).
>
> 1. We work on 8051 and HC11, there is _no_ reason to switch to other
> processors (especially the programming language is no reason).
>
> 2. For professional development, it's not enough to have a compiler. You
> need a complete tool-chain (e.g. configurator, debugger ...)
>
> > But compiler vendors aren't going to support targets for which they see
> > no demand - so if you seriously want an Ada compiler for such things
> > ASK! :-)
>
> No, thats wrong. Would you go to GM and tell them: "Please build me a car
> whith five wheels,60 inch wheels, ..."? NO, you go to your local dealer,
see
> what he has and then buy it or leave it.

That's wrong in your (and perhaps even my) view - but that is the reality of
the situation with Ada (or any other non-C/C++ language) compilers.

Think of it more providing marketing information. One or two requests or
enquiries about support for a particular platform won't do anything but if
they get requests from tens of potential customers they then now there is a
market there to exploit.

-- Martin