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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run
 with a RTOS for running ADA
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:21:32 -0500
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"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message 
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> On 09.07.13 22:10, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> On tiny systems, 90% of Ada's advantages are negated
>
> McCormick found that 90% of Ada's presumed advantages were
> down the list of important advantages, at least in his "test
> groups". (That's the model railroads embedded projects.)
>
> At the top of this list are Ada's scalar types.
>
> At the top of the list of the weekly CVEs are predefined
> scalar types of C.
>
> So, it's not exactly just syntax that programmers change when
> expressing their embedded programs in sequential Ada, not C.

Sure, that's the 10%: Ada's type system still brings some benefits. IMHO, 
the package system, private types, exceptions and handling, and tasking with 
timeouts and the like are much more valuable. Keep in mind that McCormick is 
talking about tiny systems where the *real* advantages of Ada don't have 
much use.

(And any high-level language -- C is not a high-level language in my view --  
would have the same advantages. Which is why it is not a particularly good 
place for Ada, unless you think that the only possible competition is C.)

                           Randy.