A little bit about Ada

A lot of people have barely heard of Ada.  It’s an older language but has alot of features that aren’t found in many modern languages.  These features make it great for embedded systems and other large and very complex systems.  Some of these features include some of the features found in modern OOP based languages.  They include

• Generics
• Packages
• Thread support

In addition to the features of most modern OOP languages it also has support for lower level hardware based programming that makes the code much more maintainable that C.  There are several different Ada compilers and IDEs available.  GCC contains support for Ada through the Gnat compiler.  There is also an IDE that integrates with Gnat called Gps.  It can be downloaded here.