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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Is Linux right for Embedded?
Date: 2 Oct 2001 13:40:06 -0500
Date: 2001-10-02T13:40:06-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <IG3Msfd1vSH1@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9pcvbn$r52$1@xmission.xmission.com

In article <9pcvbn$r52$1@xmission.xmission.com>, bgeer@xmission.xmission.com (bgeer) writes:
> "Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> writes:
>  >His point (if I may be so bold) is that they did it much more
>  >economically in Ada.  Other have seen these results too.
> 
> Man hours, maybe, if you have a team that already has significant Ada
> experience.
> 
> Include costs of compiler, language & tool training, development &
> emulation platforms, & future maintenance plus factor in employee
> turnover, may reveal a different economic interpretation.

Absolutely !  Ada is much easier to learn to a satisfactory level
than C++, and also suffers less from the phenomena of people who
used it a little in a class passing themselves off as expert.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-02 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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
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 [this message]
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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