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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5212284fdbcb2b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-05 14:32:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!wagner.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "akhar" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3D4EE233.7030101@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: New to ada, a few questions X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:27:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.200.33.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca X-Trace: wagner.videotron.net 1028583123 24.200.33.69 (Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:32:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:32:03 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27727 Date: 2002-08-05T17:27:17-05:00 List-Id: > * Ada provides calling conventions and several useful conversions > for calling functions compiled in C. You cannot use stdio.h in Ada. > Ada does not understand C source syntax, and Ada has no standard > preprocessor. this means I have to link to a DLL ? > * Interfacing with C++ or objective C is possible. The simplest way > is to treat them both as C programs. More complex approaches are > somewhat compiler specific. same thing here? > * Ada is available for embedded systems, but not for 8 bit microcontrollers. where ca I get more info on this? > * Ada "threading" works very well. It is actually defined in the more > general terms of concurrent programming, and is often implemented > using threads. Compared to Java, Ada's concurrency model is extremely > robust and sophisticated. Tell me more about concurrent programming, how does it interface to the OS threading model. I read this is the main reason it is used for realtime applications , but cannot find any tutorials. > I hope you have pleasant experiences learning Ada. Me too > Jim Rogers > Sephane