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Message: [QUOTE="Guest, post: 1533496"] Ada is every bit as powerful as C++. Just a bit safer. [snipped a bunch of code] Everything you just coded in C++ is easily done, but with slightly different, and definitely safer, syntax. We can get to the bit level, the byte level, or the word level for data. In at least one embedded system, deployed on a bare-board using an Ada run-time, that I know quite well, we inserted actual machine code, including some code to disable interrupts temporarily. Speaking of powerful languages, consider the power of Ada to allow you to build concurrent programs directly within the language. There is no need to make separate Posix/Unix calls. Moreover, Ada has, at present, the most robust model for controlling mutual exclusion found in any non-experimental language. If is really power you need, especially programming power, Ada will stand against any competitor. Richard Riehle [/QUOTE]