From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey
Date: 2000/05/03
Date: 2000-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccvh0v5k4p.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8epsik$k3q$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <wccya5rjyfu.fsf@world.std.com>,
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know, but it seems to me more important to ask whether the
> > resulting software is cheaper, safer, or better in some other way,
> > rather than whether the developers prefer it. ;-)
>
> When asked in a poll of software developers, either question is liable
> to produce the same answer. ...
I don't believe you. I think there are lots of programmers who like
languages for reasons other than the quality of the resulting programs.
>... Better yet would be to test it somehow (or
> at least poll customers, then check against the implementation
> languages).
Yeah.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-26 0:00 Embedded Systems Survey Tucker Taft
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-08-04 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-07 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gautier
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