From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f822ae7b0f7433c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:21:54 -0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1168871816.263502.212100@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zEJK12x7djBBvRARhduGQA.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8152 Date: 2007-01-16T00:21:54-02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter escreveu: > Talulah wrote: >> >> I am in the process of writing a book about real-time embedded >> development (hardware and software). >> Unfortunately I'm really a C programmer, with very little experience >> of other languages, ... > > I would think that someone qualified to write such a book would be > familiar with at least one language that was designed for RT embedded SW > development. Such a language would have things like tasking, timing, and > fixed-point types built in. Can you please enlight us why "Such a language *would have* things like" and not "programming in a such language that has things like..." > > Clearly C is not such a language, so I have to wonder about the > qualifications of someone who only knows C. And why cannot C be augmented by RTOSs and other systems software to achieve this? Instead of taking profit of an opportunity you rather just spit a bit of arrogance? How does this helps Ada?