Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?

[mike@nospam <mike_member@newsguy.com>]

In article <9phpgn$aar$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin says...
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>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.
 
speaking of reuse. I've seen too many programmer when they want a function
to do something, they jump in and start coding. few hours later they are
done, and few more hours debugging, etc... But they never bother spending few
minutes searching to see if such a function allready exist somewhere...and
most of the time such a function is allready written, even in the same project
(if it is a big project), by someone else, or at least a very similar function.

if hardware engineers build things the way software engineers do, we will still
be using 8088 intel cpu running at 1 MHZ to this day.