On 2010-08-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <i3982t$79...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I've always thought Ada was a pretty nice embedded/systems languages, >> but some of the initial implementations were indede horrible. > > Well, there?s GNAT, the GNU Ada implementation. Seems pretty robust and > complete, while offering backward compatibility with some of those ?initial > implementations?, presumably because people have so much code already > written for them.
Yep, I've installed Gnat a couple times with the intention of playing around with it, but there's pretty much zero chance I could sell it at the office in place of C/C++ for embedded stuff, and for desktop stuff it's just way to easy to get programs done using Python. I also looked at Modula-3 once, and thought it had some real promise, but I think it's probably deader than Ada now. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list