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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Adapting an Ada compiler to generate 8051 code (Again?! ;-)
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"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I have often wished that there would be Ada compilers for more 
> microcontrollers, but I understand why there aren't. An Ada-to-C compiler 
> seems the most promising route.

Send $$$. ;-) This was a project that was ideally suited for the Janus/Ada 
compiler suite, but we never were able to find a customer for it. The 
problem is always that the first customer has to pay a substantial part of 
the development; later customers don't have to pay that freight. (Back in 
the "waiver" days we considered doing it for the "fun" of making DoD-types 
have to find better excuses to avoid Ada than a compiler not existing for 
it, but the likely ROI wasn't there to convince the angel investors to go 
along with the idea.)

                                     Randy.