Re: Arbitrary Sandbox

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Rob Shea" <zzycatch@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>If anyone is able to address my concerns about Ada on embedded systems
>is awesome, but Ada on the abstraction of Windows, relying on the
>APIs, etc... is this still awesome?

Of course. Ada is awesome everywhere! :-)

I may be biased of course, but we've developed a number of programs using 
Claw (along with Claw itself), which are solely targeted to Windows. The 
"good things" about Ada don't depend on the target platform. If there is an 
issue (and it exists on any target) is that there sometimes is a need to 
write interfaces to other code (APIs sometimes, but also ROMs and hardware 
as well). Taking the time to do this right is almost always a win - but it 
does take some time.

Please note that I don't have any experience with .NET beyond the 
occassional annoying message that it needs to be patched. :-) So I don't 
know much about running in that environment (it's hard for me to imagine 
precisely why such an environment would be an improvement over a properly 
designed compiler / runtime environment -- the only problem being that both 
Windows and Unix-based systems do not have a properly designed (native) 
runtime environment -- stuff we did to make Janus/Ada more secure on DOS 
extenders in the 1980s never made it to OS environments).

                                               Randy.