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On 10/18/2012 03:33 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
 >
 > That's the reality -- and it isn't likely to change. Unless the board
 > manufacturers themselves start supporting Ada development systems, I don't
 > think there will ever be many choices for bare/small targets. (Especially as
 > Ada *never* has been used for small targets, even back in the 1980s when
 > there was a lot of pressure from the DoD to do so.)

Wasn't the "Ada Beats Assembler" project a small target? I recall that the 
expectation was that Ada would be neither small enough to fit in the available 
memory nor fast enough to meet the real-time deadlines; in the end, Ada was 
faster and smaller than assembler.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Why, the Mayflower was full of Fireflies, and a few
horseflies, too. The Fireflies were on the upper deck,
and the horseflies were on the Fireflies."
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