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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:00:17 +0100
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:15:22 -0700 (PDT), KK6GM wrote:

> IMO, if an embedded engineer can try out Ada's tasking and realtime
> features on a typical piece of hardware, they'll be sold.

And Ada's fixed-point arithmetic. People are writing everything first in
double and then run monstrous tests in order to verify that the system's
behaviour wouldn't change when double is replaced by a home-brewed integer
emulation of fixed point. In Ada one could just define the target type
right from the start and spare all the mess.

> But there
> seems to be no easy way to make that happen, and it needs to be easy
> or they won't bother.

Yes.

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