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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: C versus Ada (once again :-)), was: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
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On 2014-11-03, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>> Two good examples are ARM and PIC32. Luke's done some good work in
>
> I never got to pic32, but it's just nips and if mops have finally added the
> patches to GCC in the Fsf tree then it should be ok and at the same level
> as any other arch-elf target.
>

My mistake. :-) (Like I said, it's been a couple of years since I last
looked at your work). I do remember you saying you were looking at
targeting the PIC32 after your ARM work.

>> this area, but the last time I checked (a year or two ago) he was
>> having problems with things breaking between gcc versions and getting
>> gcc to build for these targets seemed way more fragile than it should
>> be.
>
> It's been a while for me. But it's always been a bitch and it shouldn't be.
>

You will get absolutely no argument from me on that one.

>
>> Are you saying it doesn't work ? (I'm currently getting into the world
>> of Android development and once I understand it enough using the supported
>> languages, I was going to have a look at Ada on Android).
>
> It should do. What you won't get are bindings to the Android API.
>

Thanks. That's quite a bit of the way down the road however; I'm
currently spending my "Android time" learning to write extensions for
Firefox Mobile to add functionality I miss from desktop Firefox.

BTW, there's one hell of a difference between the formal, present the
background and conceptual material upfront world of Ada, and the
cut and paste learn by example world of Firefox addons...

I must say I prefer the Ada approach as you get a solid grounding in
the material as hand. I guess doing lots of background reading before
designing and implementing something is considered "old fashioned"
these days however.

Simon.

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