Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

[bgeer@xmission.xmission.com (bgeer)]

mike@nospam <mike_member@newsguy.com> writes:

 >>plus factor in employee
 >>turnover, may reveal a different economic interpretation.
 >>
 >excatly. those dim a dozzen programmers, we do not want to lose them, those
 >who need years to learn a new language, and get confuded when they see
 >BEGIN instead of "{". we got to keep those ones.

Time to learning basic ADA isn't the issue.

Dump several 10s of thousands of lines of code in hundreds of source
source files, all poorly documented of course since ADA is
self-documenting, on any but the best memorizers & you end up with
long delays in productivity.

Add to that time to figure out emulators & debuggers for which manuals
can't be found, long since carted off by a former project member.

Now tell me finding good, quick-to-produce ADA coders, is easier than
finding good C coders.

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