From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a92260589520779 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 22:46:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compile Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:44:36 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1002865617 14785 137.194.161.2 (12 Oct 2001 05:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:46:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <004901c152d3$53b51d00$01010101@oxygen> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14359 Date: 2001-10-11T22:44:36-07:00 From: Bob Leif To: Michael Garrett, Ann Brandon et al. Although to most of us the utility of Ada for medical devices is obvious, the FDA has not been educated to this fact. My own pleasant experience was having a software manager in a state of euphoria, when the time for integration was less than two days and he beat the date for completion of the hardware. As a former professor of Biomedical Engineering, I have always been upset about the lack of instruction in the regulatory aspect of the profession. This is in spite of about one fourth of the students becoming involved in satisfying the FDA, who is the first customer for the device. I might also suggest, that if one has an installed, well tested code base in C, it is quite reasonable to reuse this code. However, this can be done by encapsulating the C into the bodies of Ada packages. -----Original Message----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Michael Garrett Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:07 PM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compile Hello Ann, At one time, we had a conversation ( several actually ) about using ada in medical instruments. Alot has changed since we last emailed!! I have have another baby ( girl Charlotte ) to make a total of three. I think we had one the last time we communicated. I have resigned my position as VP of RD at medical research Labs (MRL) and have started a consulting company with my wife. We are both working part time and raising the family full time.... MRL came out with two more products, both AED Automatic External Defibrillators using "C", leveraging our existing code base. As a consultant I will be concentrating on finding a "seed" product to form a manufacturing company around. Anyway...Recognized your name and thought I'd say hi! Michael C. Garrett Garrett Technologies Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann S. Brandon Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:48 PM Subject: Re: Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compile > > This is response to Tom Moran's comment on Sunday: > > > I asked Google for "Ada Compilers" > > and got a bunch of stuff, but the first several entries were for very > > old web pages with antiquated information. > > I searched on Google twice on two different computers for Ada compilers > (not using any quotes) and got, as a first hit, the antiquated Ada Home > page, and on the second the newest AdaIC Compiler page. > > http://www.adaic.org/compilers/ > > > Eventually I saw > > directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Ada/Compilers > > and www.acm.org/sigada et al, but someone who didn't already know the > > answers already would have waded through a lot of unhelpful stuff > > first. > > I will definitely contact the person in charge of this directory and set > her straight. > > > Do a google search and see what I mean. > > Same result both times. So I'm not sure how to repeat your results. > > > Do the other search > > engines turn up more helpful information? > > I'll check on this next week. Am not sure yet if we need to register the > pages officially or just depend on the search engines to do their jobs. > > > What can be done to make it > > easy, instead of hard, for someone new to Ada to find a compiler? > > > > I hope our new site will make this easy with its drop-down menus, which > allow surfers to go instantly anywhere in the site. In other words, if > someone lands on almost any page of our new site, they are be able to go > to the compilers list to compare compilers, or to the downloads list to > get a free temporary one and try out Ada. > > By the way, I'm *always* interested in new search word suggestions from > anyone to help people find the new AdaIC web site. > > Thanks, > Ann Brandon > -- > -33- > > Onyons, Inc. > P.O. Box 294 > Randolph Center, VT 05061 > USA > (802) 728-9947 > abrandon@sover.net > > Shameless self-promotion: Chekck out my new book, "Artful Italy" > (November 2001), at > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193122904X/qid%3D1002843950/ref%3Dsr% 5F11%5F0%5F1/103-3118907-9937403 > *****