Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry

[Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:

> Michael Bode wrote:
>> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
>>
>>> Frankly I 100% agree with Stephen. Ada gives a big advantage against the
>>> concurrence, why not use it just for that. An better question to me
>>> whould be : who is providing compilers, tools and support for Ada? Looks
>>> like the Ada market is fine to me.
>> Wanted: affordable cross platform (i.e. Windows + Linux) Ada
>> development system. No licensing restrictions for software produced
>> with said development system.
>> My company will start selling diode lasers with a new touch panel HMI
>> that was programmed in Ada later this year. It was fun to work on this
>> project, but I have to use fairly old versions of the compiler & libs
>> because newer ones are either too expensive or not viable because of
>> licensing restrictions.
>>
> Last time I checked it certainly did not seem like the Aonix tools
> were particularly expensive in small quantities.

Last time I checked they were to expensive to develop an embedded
appliance with them (in small quantities) and then keep the compiler
around for 10 years for maintainance (which every sane customer will
reuqire). AFAIR they still have that minimum 5 seat clause (a bit much
for the 9 years of maintainance).


Regards -- Markus