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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:58:12 +0200
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Date: 2012-10-19T01:58:12+02:00
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Le Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:52:09 +0200, Jeffrey Carter  =

<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> a =C3=A9crit:

> On 10/18/2012 03:33 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>  >
>  > That's the reality -- and it isn't likely to change. Unless the boa=
rd
>  > manufacturers themselves start supporting Ada development systems, =
I  =

> don't
>  > think there will ever be many choices for bare/small targets.  =

> (Especially as
>  > Ada *never* has been used for small targets, even back in the 1980s=
  =

> when
>  > there was a lot of pressure from the DoD to do so.)
>
> Wasn't the "Ada Beats Assembler" project a small target? I recall that=
  =

> the expectation was that Ada would be neither small enough to fit in t=
he  =

> available memory nor fast enough to meet the real-time deadlines; in t=
he  =

> end, Ada was faster and smaller than assembler.

Something you made me remember about:
[Ada Outperforms Assembly: A Case  =

Study](http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~adagroup/sigada-website/lawlis.html)

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity