Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

["Bartłomiej Świercz" <swierczu@wpk.p.lodz.pl>]

In article <slrnca7amb.18s.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> Nothing. You can program for our customers in C while learning C++.
> C++ is nothing more than C with Classes and the Template Library.

It's not truth, don't forget about type checking and save behaviour like
'static_cast'.

> There is a very simple, but important fact against Ada: The whole Network
> and OS interfaces are written in C. Only a small part of the interfaces can
> be imported into Ada, because the major list of system specific constants
> are only available as preprocessor macros. It get worse if you need
> structures.

I agree with you in 100%. And I have other point of view: if someone
ports a library to Ada it's usually too old version of library for me :(

> So the main part of developing ordinary applications in Ada is writing a
> seperate inferface to the system or the network. Nobody will pay for a list
> of already defined constants. Of course, you can write a C wrapper in order
> to get a interface, but this is silly. You will be expected to simply
> include the system header files. So your language has to be C compatible as
> much as possible. Interfacing with Ada is too expensive.

In my opinion Ada should be move to embedded market (for new boards and
processors) because PC market has too old C tradition ...

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