Re: Ada compiler using a M2 compiler as back-end

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2012-02-09, Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You should check out CFBSoftware's website. Also he's one of the only
> ones still posting in comp.lang.oberon. He does embedded stuff
> primarily with the Oberon-07 dialect. For him it's apparently good
> enough. For desktop stuff, I think he uses the Component Pascal [sic]
> [Oberon] dialect with .NET runtime.
>

Thanks for a pointer to a specific dialect.

>
> Honestly, they're all nice languages (though I'm very inexperienced),
> but I don't see how you plan to gain anything over Ada. This may sound
> silly, but they're all probably good enough for most things. They've
> all been around the block, so to speak.

Yes, I know, but every so often, I like to check out what other real time
capable safety based languages are available for embedded programming.

I haven't really found anything better than Ada, but I like to be aware
of what is out there in case there are better options I am missing.

I also like to have options in case, for example, the FSF GCC Ada tree
does not continue to be as maintained as it is now or if anything else
happens.

[Before I am criticised for that comment :-), there are a couple of
pre-emptive comments I would like to make. A decade ago, it was possible
to run a freely available GCC Ada build, supplied by ACT, on VMS. Those
kits are now available to customers only (as is perfectly legal under
the GPL).

As this is VMS, it's not a matter of just downloading the public FSF
kits and building them. I tried a few years ago; it didn't work but
I had no problems building them on a variety of Unix type environments,
both native and cross-compiled embedded.

There's also the fact the GtkAda license suddenly changed overnight
from GMGPL to GPL (which once again ACT are perfectly entitled to do).

Those experiences made me aware that it's better to be prepared in
case something else suddenly happens.]

Simon.

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