From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: C vs. ada for embeded system
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:29:08 GMT
Date: 2009-03-07T18:29:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Q1zsl.601730$yE1.108416@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gotp01$kbm$1@news.metronet.hr>
abcd wrote:
> why ada is better of "C" language for embeded system?
>
Ada was designed for embedded SW. C was designed for writing Unix.
Where we have hard data, they show that Ada results in delivery at half the cost
and with 1/4 the errors of C, and the errors cost 1/10 as much to correct. (Of
course, that's not specific to embedded systems.)
--
Jeff Carter
"Sir Robin the not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot,
who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor,
who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol,
and who had personally wet himself at the
Battle of Badon Hill."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-07 12:23 C vs. ada for embeded system abcd
2009-03-07 13:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-07 18:12 ` Martin
2009-03-07 18:18 ` Pascal Obry
2009-03-07 18:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2009-03-07 19:54 ` Per Sandberg
2009-03-07 23:26 ` anon
2009-03-08 10:43 ` Pascal Obry
2009-03-09 16:02 ` mccormick
2009-03-10 17:33 ` Martin Krischik
2009-03-11 10:14 ` christoph.grein
2009-03-11 14:07 ` John McCormick
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