From: Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>
Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:26:07 +0200
Date: 2007-05-08T23:26:07+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s7abwfxb0w.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2kxz8cntat9y$.1t9ovvtq8zcjs$.dlg@40tude.net
> I would not consider it as a problem at all. The real problem with hardware
> interface libraries from third firms is that they are *normally*
> non-portable, non-functioning and have documentation describing something
> quite different from what you get. Add here, that the devices are customary
> malfunctioning. If you send the command A followed by B, the device
> software crashes. When you make a full-duplex communication, it crashes
> again. When A is sent more frequently than each 100ms it crashes once more,
> and so on and so forth. Usually GUI is your least problem.
Your organisation seems to have a problem with enforcing vendor
liability. If I pay for a scientific instrument and the only
documented way to interface with it is a vendor supplied C library,
this would better not crash to often.
Regards -- Markus
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2007-05-03 17:13 Newbie Needs Ada Advice ezkcdude
2007-05-03 18:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-03 22:14 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-04 4:07 ` tmoran
2007-05-04 12:57 ` Bob Spooner
2007-05-04 13:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-04 14:40 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-04 19:19 ` Bob Spooner
2007-05-04 19:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-06 21:46 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-07 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-07 7:42 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-05-07 9:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-08 2:58 ` Justin Gombos
2007-05-08 11:58 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-04 4:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-05-04 6:48 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-05-07 8:01 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 14:40 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-08 15:07 ` Pascal Obry
2007-05-08 15:27 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-08 15:54 ` Pascal Obry
2007-05-08 16:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-08 18:42 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 16:18 ` Ali Bendriss
2007-05-08 19:23 ` Michael Bode
2007-05-08 16:11 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 16:49 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-08 18:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-05-08 21:17 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 18:45 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 18:28 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-05-08 18:51 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-08 19:31 ` Michael Bode
2007-05-08 19:43 ` Michael Bode
2007-05-08 20:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-08 21:26 ` Markus E Leypold [this message]
2007-05-08 21:21 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-08 21:27 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-08 21:56 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-09 13:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-05-09 15:58 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-10 21:20 ` Memory mapped files and shared memory (Was: Newbie Needs Ada Advice) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-05-11 16:38 ` ezkcdude
2007-05-10 18:14 ` Newbie Needs Ada Advice Chip and Allie Orange
2007-05-27 5:50 ` adaworks
2007-05-29 12:54 ` ezkcdude
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