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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffe4fb1477fe67e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice References: <1178212418.538270.283700@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <5abtplF2n3855U1@mid.individual.net> <1178650313.462774.91850@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <2kxz8cntat9y$.1t9ovvtq8zcjs$.dlg@40tude.net> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:26:07 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ieEWqsmEehkHCKxYi3lpCCXbFLU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.36.55 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1178659061 88.74.36.55 (8 May 2007 23:17:41 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15662 Date: 2007-05-08T23:26:07+02:00 List-Id: > 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