Re: Anyone out there using Ada ?

In article <d81b23ff-d760-477f-8281-a7991ea83fd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, britt.snodgrass@xxxxxxxxx writes:

My impression it that that the number of projects with an interest in
safety and/or security is increasing. Both Ada and C are used, and
there seems to be recently increasing interest in Ada, reversing the
trend of the last decade. The thing the holds Ada back in the low-end
microcontroller space (e.g. PIC, AVR, MIPS, etc) is the lack of
readily available cross-compilers for these targets. This is
absolutely not due to any technical aspects of the language but just
reflects the market factors of the last several years.


There is a port of GNAT to the AVR platform, but it's a community driven,
instead of ACT driven, port.

Note that when I last looked at it, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't
yet quite comfortable using it on a project that I was working on, as I
wanted to see it have a bit more of a development history before using it
on this particular project.

I don't have any information on what functionality it has these days.

See here for the port:

http://avr-ada.sourceforge.net

Simon.

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