From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/29
Date: 1999-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uQA04.117$ji4.20324@news.wenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3842C8FD.5EFB9685@pwfl.com
Marin Condic wrote in message <3842C8FD.5EFB9685@pwfl.com>...
>...the
>embarrassing real answer that "No. There are no Ada compilers for small
>microcontrollers."
My own instinct (meaning I'm not prepared to back it up, just wave my arms
<g>) on this is that (1) for the 8-bit world, the chips really are too small
to support enough Ada to be significant, (2) for the 16-bit world, full Ada
could be supported, but the 16-bit world seems to be turning into something
of a backwater (once you've gone that far, especially with >16 bit
addresses, why not go 32 bits internally?), leaving (3) the 32-bit world,
where Ada, it seems to me, has an excellent chance to be "rehabilitated" as
the percentage of embedded systems that go 32-bit will just continue to
climb. IMHO, Ada on cheap 32-bit hardware is an embedded designer's dream
come true -- it's just tooooo delicious!
Mike
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-24 0:00 Compiler for Z80/6510 Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Frank Klemm
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Wil
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-13 0:00 ` carr_tom
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bf38cb$be9b2b60$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva [this message]
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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