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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
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In article <3E2AEA0C.7AD2A87F@t-online.de>, Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@t-online.de> writes:
> Well, nice. But - what do you test, debug, document and so on: Ada or
> C-code?
> 
> 
> Larry Kilgallen schrieb:
>> 
>> In article <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de>, Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@t-online.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Assume you have to program a brake control for car, would you do it in
>> > Ada? Then I would like to know which tools you use. The systems I know
>> > are based on microcontrollers HC11/HC12 or 8051. _I_ don't know any
>> > Ada-compiler for these chips. While there are a lot of C develop
>> > environments, there are only very few for Modula, and none for Ada.
>> > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>> 
>> The SofCheck AdaMagic compiler is available in a form that uses ANSI C
>> as an intermediate language.   Thus any target machine for which you
>> have an ANSI C compiler can be programmed using Ada.  Using this method
>> one automatically takes advantage of whatever peephole optimization the
>> hardware-specific C compiler provides.
>> 
>>         http://www.sofcheck.com

When programming in Fortran, do you test, debug and document in
Fortran or in the Intermediate Language of your Fortran compiler ?