From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:52:01 -0400
Date: 2001-10-01T18:52:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9pae0i$dbq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: v52u7.232$vH4.50798716@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com
Go ahead and be so bold. :-) That is exactly my point. Productivity doubled
and errors were reduced by a factor of four. (The latter probably having a
significant impact on the former.) That has to translate into lower cost and
higher reliability. 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. I'd rather get all the automated help I can find by way of Ada's
checking, structural integrity and organizational capabilities. That will
preserve the stockholder's money for something more productive.
Also, I would contend that there are likely to be other languages that show
similar improvements over C/C++ in terms of productivity and error rates. I
just don't have any data on other languages that provide similar safety
capabilities.
BTW: For some reason, my newsreader is not able to resolve the reference to
linux.dev.kernel - is this a problem elsewhere? Is the post getting throug
to that group?
MDC
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"Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> wrote in message
news:v52u7.232$vH4.50798716@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> "bgeer" <bgeer@xmission.xmission.com> wrote in message
> news:9pa9of$9me$1@xmission.xmission.com...
>
> You missed his point. The question is not whether language is a
replacement
> for talent, and he did not assert that it was impossible to make high
> reliability code with anything other than Ada. The question is "for how
> much money?". His point (if I may be so bold) is that they did it much
more
> economically in Ada. Other have seen these results too.
>
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2001-10-01 15:02 ` Is Linux right for Embedded? Marin David Condic
2001-10-01 17:39 ` bgeer
2001-10-01 17:54 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-01 18:52 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-10-01 19:45 ` mike
2001-10-01 20:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-01 20:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 1:50 ` Lee Chang
2001-10-03 3:51 ` mike
2001-10-02 8:06 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-10-02 14:38 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-02 18:00 ` bgeer
2001-10-02 18:40 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-02 18:44 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-02 18:59 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-02 19:34 ` mike
2001-10-02 21:24 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 16:02 ` bgeer
2001-10-03 16:19 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-03 16:45 ` Gary Scott
2001-10-03 17:12 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-03 17:39 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 18:10 ` Gary Scott
2001-10-03 16:23 ` Darren New
2001-10-03 16:32 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 17:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-03 17:52 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 20:07 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-03 20:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 20:44 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-03 21:09 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 23:48 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-04 2:58 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-04 13:40 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-03 23:56 ` pete
2001-10-04 4:33 ` David Bolen
2001-10-04 17:19 ` David Botton
2001-10-04 13:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-04 18:07 ` mike
2001-10-04 23:47 ` Rufus V. Smith
2001-10-01 18:42 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-01 19:40 ` mike
2001-10-01 21:05 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-02 17:57 ` Everett M. Greene
2001-10-02 17:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-02 17:50 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-02 18:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-02 18:37 ` Larry Kilgallen
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