Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Never said I was against code reuse. (Did I say that somewhere and forget?
Let me check..... Nope! Can't find a single place I said that I thought
reuse was A Bad Thing :-)  I said that in some types of development for some
problem domains, code reuse is not very interesting or important - for a
variety of reasons.

Of course reuse is a good way to speed time to market. Where would we be
without APIs to operating systems or GUI interfaces, etc? That's "reuse" and
the more of it you can do, the better.

The point is, if a given application domain isn't interested in reuse, then
there are still *other* reasons why Ada is an advantage. Those areas should
be emphasized when talking to developers who don't have an interest in the
long term benefits Ada has.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"pete@nospam" <pete_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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>
> but but but, code REUSE is what will make time-to-market much smaller.
>
> Ada is one of the best languages for designing code reuse, which means
> if you want very short time-to-market, then Ada is one of the best
choices.
>
> >Otherwise, folks in a fast-moving throw-away market may find the argument
> >interesting, but not compelling.
> >
>
> Untill they see that code reuse == profit and shorter time-to-market.
>
> of course, writing packages with the idea of REUSE requires more time
> and effort, but it will soon pays of (in the next project).
>