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

["Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net>]

"Jeff C," <jcreem@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> > Actually, I'm looking at a new control project that would use PowerPC
> > and VxWorks. Current leaning is towards Aonix for it. If ACT had a
> > soup-to-nuts offering in that area, I'd want to know about it - but I'm
> > not the ultimate customer. (I can recommend and maybe specify in the
> > proposal, but the customer has to bob their head up and down. :-)
> >
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> ACT does have an integrated product (including complete tornado
integration)
> for vxWorks.
> As for an OS'less type approach...I would guess that you are correct that
> there are better choices.
>
Including, I suspect, DDC-I and Green Hills.  Don't know about ICC.  There
are small, struggling compiler publishers out there that specialize in
embedded
systems.   We need to give them an opportunity to compete on these projects
too.   In the case of the three I just named, we know that they all have a
commitment to Ada.  Some of the other companies, that used to be focused
on Ada, have not seemed to demonstrate much more than token commitment in
recent times.    They apparently have "other fish to fry."

Richard Riehle