Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> wrote in message
news:3A007746.E656E341@netwood.net...

: Originally, I expected that there would be a great deal of interest
: in an Ada language binding for the VSIPL API standard
: but almost no one -- including the participants
: from DARPA and the U.S. Navy -- was interested.

You may want to read the full thread to get caught up. In any case,
hopefully everyone now understands that, with acquisition reform, defense
contractors have a lot more latitude on the decisions they make in the
software area. Given that defense contractors do a large percentage of the
defense work, it's not a good idea to limit your defense marketing to the
Government.

: There are still almost no really good Ada compilers
: for any embedded DSP chips
: so I don't expect movement on an Ada language binding
: for the VSIPL API standard any time in the near future.

Actually, there is an Ada compiler for the SHARC, and apparently more than
one Ada compiler that can generate C code compatible with TI DSP processors.