Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

[dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry Kazakov)]

On 1 Oct 2001 15:18:29 -0500, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
wrote:

>In article <9pah5l01o0q@drn.newsguy.com>, mike@nospam <mike_member@newsguy.com> writes:
>> In article <9pae0i$dbq$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin says...
>>>
>>  
>>>You can get good systems in any language - you just
>>>might have to spend the next 5 years debugging & patching in the lab to get
>>>there. 
>> 
>>  
>> Cool. More job security !
>> 
>> The boss can't fire me, becuase the product still has bugs in it that needs
>> to be fixed (and of course no one else can fix them becuase no one else can
>> figure the code out becuase we did not write any design documents).
>
>But the customers can fire the whole company !

Yes they can but will not (:-)). When you develop in Ada and thus have
a higher quality product, the customer has an ability to concentrate
on real issues [and discover that the whole project makes no sense at
all (:-))]. With C++ (powered by Windows) he concentrates on bug
reports, updates, service packs etc, which gives him a warm feeling
that "the process goes" and that he pays for a damn good and hard
work. It sounds cynical, but sometimes the worse is better...

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov