Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

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

Hi, I have 50+ similar anecdotes...as well as experience building
C/Win32 and GINO-based apps.  But the comparison has as much to do with
the high-level structure of GINO (vs Win32) as anything.

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3BBB409D.26EF7757@lmtas.lmco.com>, Gary Scott says...
> >Pat Rogers wrote:
> >> 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
> One highly unscientific anectodte does not constitue anything close to "proof"
> in my book.
> 
> However, if there *were* numbers on C vs. Fortran, I wouldn't be shocked to see
> Fortran (even F77) come out on top. C's overeliance on pointers cause a great
> deal of its problems. But this is all theoretical. The numbers on Ada and C
> actually exist.
> 
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