From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1143c4,7d107e452bdd8496 X-Google-Attributes: gid1143c4,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,7d107e452bdd8496 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1db77fbb2768946e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-03 10:13:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel,comp.realtime,comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BB69F21.B5AA7451@intercom.com> <9pcvbn$r52$1@xmission.xmission.com> <9pd4s402bga@drn.newsguy.com> <9pfcps$p0l$1@xmission.xmission.com> <3BBB409D.26EF7757@lmtas.lmco.com> Subject: Re: Is Linux right for Embedded? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:12:44 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:12:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com linux.dev.kernel:4466 comp.realtime:3950 comp.lang.ada:13682 Date: 2001-10-03T17:12:44+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BBB409D.26EF7757@lmtas.lmco.com>, Gary Scott says... >Pat Rogers wrote: >> another matter). You seem to be ignoring the points being made. What we >> are trying to tell you is that there exists proof that development with Ada >> can be significantly more productive than development with C. > >Heck, >Development with Fortran 95 is significantly more productive than with >C. We recently had vendors estimate building a small Win32 tool. >Average estimate was 500 mhrs for a C/Win32 Gui tool related to audio One highly unscientific anectodte does not constitue anything close to "proof" in my book. However, if there *were* numbers on C vs. Fortran, I wouldn't be shocked to see Fortran (even F77) come out on top. C's overeliance on pointers cause a great deal of its problems. But this is all theoretical. The numbers on Ada and C actually exist. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.