Re: Air traffic control system in Java

["Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> No, not at all. What fraction of programmers will spend their
> careers working on embedded systems?

A large fraction. Embedded systems are virtually everywhere and
someone has to program them.

And even if that were not the case, most programmers are bound to
implement logic, GUI is only a small part of the programming job and
- if done correctly - in the hands of a designer, not in the hands
of the programmer anyway.

So I seriously doubt, that GUI programming is the majority of
programming at all. It's only the most visible and if you design
a smart interface it can even be done in a different language. :)

And in one of my previous occupations the GUI was done in Python,
which was connected to an Object-Pascal backend with a remote call
interface, and the newly developed hard real-time embedded device which
replaced the old one was done in Ada.

So, only one third of that whole system had a (G)UI at all, not even
counting the fact that the embedded device was needed at least twice
there.

BTW, if sending out HTML can be considered "user-interface", Ada is
well fit for the purpose with AWS. ;)


Vinzent.

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