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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c5f189513e1f5f8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!nlpi057.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flph199.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada as a first language References: <01d59695$0$20632$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> In-Reply-To: <01d59695$0$20632$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.26.152 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com 1237734924 ST000 68.94.26.152 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:15:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:15:24 EDT X-UserInfo1: [[PAPDCAOXWQB_LZBZOB_QDBAJT@QDDMEPWXODMMHXMTWA]EPMTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:21:13 -0500 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4220 Date: 2009-03-22T10:21:13-05:00 List-Id: Chris wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a mechanical engineer, and I have become interested in robotics > embedded systems. I have little experience in this area other that > plugging in electronic components and clicking run. > > I had recently started to learn Java, when I found out about Ada. From > what I have seen of Ada, I really like the way that the language is > structured, that is has a proper standard, and it seems like a good > choice for the types of projects that I have in mind. > > I have down loaded GNAT with the GPS IDE, as well as the work bench for > eclipse (although I haven't had it working yet), and have been trying to > work my way through the examples. > > My concern lies in the smaller community for Ada. As an > amateur/hobbyist, am I biting off more than I need to? I do all this with Intel Visual Fortran. Most of the APIs are written in C, so if you choose any other language than C, interfacing with most of the device drivers will be messy. -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford