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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New paper book: Ada on ARM Cortex-M Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:57:58 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <60f1664f-7ddb-4656-9ae5-5ccfa5dee8c3@googlegroups.com> <558c94b8$0$57599$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="11465"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19CrmYkayDwH+7kRGGq6P5OMa45QLuU/JA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <558c94b8$0$57599$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:RhRJySJAjGwozcbCvoSuhegHvA4= Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:193789 Date: 2015-06-26T13:57:58+02:00 List-Id: On 26.06.15 01:54, Jerry Petrey wrote: > On 6/25/2015 6:04 AM, Simon Wright wrote: >> Maciej Sobczak writes: >> >>> I am pleased to report that the tutorial titled "Ada on ARM Cortex-M", >>> which was announced here in its early stages, evolved and finally >>> became a regular printed book: >>> >>> http://www.lulu.com/shop/maciej-sobczak/ada-and-spark-on-arm-cortex-m/paperback/product-22195745.html >>> >> >> Just got my copy; thanks for the work! >> > > Just got my copy too. Nice work. I am having a lot of fun getting GNAT > Ada running on a lot of ARM boards, creating support for the ARM on-chip > peripherals and creating drivers for common external sensors, displays, > etc. It is great that others are seeing the power of Ada on these > powerful platforms. An embedded project idea is just spreading in the news channels: Sense the nearness of a car riding in front of an ARM-equipped BMW, so that it would automatically trigger the headlight flasher.