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,fba8595cda50c2ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-30 08:40:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada automatic code generation for Simulink models Date: 30 May 2002 11:20:09 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <3CF539BA.32BE0D15@NOSPAM.visteon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1022772452 21100 128.183.220.71 (30 May 2002 15:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 May 2002 15:27:32 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25006 Date: 2002-05-30T15:27:32+00:00 List-Id: John Kern writes: > I see that the Mathworks is dropping support for automatically > generating Ada code from Simulink models. While I remain an ardent Ada fan, I actually don't have a problem with this. What Mathworks is recognizing is that the user language is _Simulink_ (sorry, I don't know if it has another name), not either Ada or C. The output format is irrelevant; it should not be read by people anyway. Given that, and given that they don't want to write assembler or object code, C is a good choice, since it is available for a wider range of systems than Ada is. If you want to incorporate the Simulink output in an otherwise Ada product, define a stable interface and import it. That can be a pain, I suppose, but you should only have to do it once. You need the stable interface between the Simulink part and the non-Simulink part anyway; clearly Ada is the best tool for defining that interface. What we need to do is show that Ada is _as_ _good_ as Simulink, for some class of applications. Clearly Simulink (and similar languages) have niche markets where they are the right tool. I believe Ada is the right tool for a wide range of markets. -- -- Stephe