EBESER@ADA20.ISI.EDU (03/17/87)
After listening to Dr. John Barnes at the Washington Ada Symposium, and attending numerous SIGAda and ADAJUG conferences about why Ada is failing (or not used well) in embedded systems, my associates and I decided to perform an act of community service. We decided to take some of our experiences in building real time systems, call for volunteers to write about there experiences and put together a "Hard Knocks Handbook" which will be a compendium of do's and don'ts geared for Ada programmers. To make it fair, we decided not to publish this commercially, but to put the results on the net for all to benifit. That way people who write their experiences are not exploited. We will gather together what people write, edit spelling and punctuation, and group similar topics. We will not change in anyway (other than above) what people are writing about. Soooo.... If you have implemented a real time system, or written embedded code (not necessary to write in Ada, but this is for Ada) here's your chance to become famous, but not rich, and to share your pitfalls with the Ada world. You may write as long or as short as you like. Send responses to me, at the address below. If you would like to have a copy of what people have sent so that you may respond, I will keep a file active on my unix system so to send you these reponses in a timely manner. Eric Beser EBESER@ADA20 (ARPA) seismo!aplcen!cp1!sarin!eric (usenet) 301-765-8008 (w) 301-356-4037 (h)
MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (mike feldman) (03/18/87)
I don't - personally - write real-time software, but I applaud what you are doing. I will pass the word along to students (who are usually also employed in the DoD industry in DC) and friends who don't read the net regularly. Go for it!