Re: Anyone out there using Ada ?

In article <C43E77DC.E7692%yaldnif.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
yaldnif.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On 30/04/2008 17:20, in article
125abc62-7cc7-4e73-9bcb-f329275865dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "linnix"
<me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which
programmers took a gigantic step backwards by switching from
secure Pascal-like languages to insecure C-like languages. I have
no rational explanation for this trend."

Have you seen any hardware device drivers in Pascal, before or after
1980?

How many programmers need to write device drivers?
Technically, anytime we write code for a micro and don't include some
type of supporting OS, we HAVE to write "device drivers" for all the
hardware we use. Like UARTs, I2C, SPI, and so on. Many of us have
built up a library of standard routines that we use on particular
processors, but we had to write the original code, none the less.

Jim
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