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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:32:28 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-10, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 01:22 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:>
> > There's also the lack of Ada for microcontroller platforms other than
> > ARM (ACT supplied) and AVR (ACT/third party supplied). Just think of
> > all the stuff Farnell sells which doesn't have Ada compiler target
> > support, but does have C compiler target support. (I mention Farnell
> > because your website says you are in Leeds.)
>
> If it's targeted by a C compiler then it's targeted by an Ada compiler.
>

That doesn't make sense.

Some random examples:

What about the various microcontrollers you can buy which have C
available but not a Ada compiler ?

What about IBM's AS/400 or MVS systems ?

What about a usable version of Ada for the PIC32MX ?

Simon.

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