Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

Pat Rogers wrote:
> 
> "bgeer" <bgeer@xmission.xmission.com> wrote in message
> news:9pfcps$p0l$1@xmission.xmission.com...
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> <snip>
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> > Now tell me finding good, quick-to-produce ADA coders, is easier than
> > finding good C coders.
> 
> We aren't trying to tell you that Ada (please note the casing) "coders" are
> easier to find than any other language (why anyone would want a "coder" is
> another matter).  You seem to be ignoring the points being made.  What we
> are trying to tell you is that there exists proof that development with Ada
> can be significantly more productive than development with C.

Heck,
Development with Fortran 95 is significantly more productive than with
C.  We recently had  vendors estimate building a small Win32 tool. 
Average estimate was 500 mhrs for a C/Win32 Gui tool related to audio
sample manipulation.  I wrote the same tool using F95/GINO in somewhere
between 40 and 50 hours and achieved 99.9 % source code compatilibity
across several variants of UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, and all 32-bit variants
of Windows (well, I didn't check CE).