Joel Koltner wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message
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As soon as anybody doing an embedded system says "let's use Java",
fire them.

John
Agreed ;-)

Same goes for .NET.

You guys realize that that sort of "technology" is all over things like
Agilent and Tek scopes, network/spectrum/logic/etc. analyzers, etc. these
days, right? As soon as the marketing guys say, "This has to have a web
interface that can completely control the interface and display its screen
remotely!" while one certainly has many choices besides Java or .Net, at that
point someone who'd suggest, "Let's do it in straight C or assembly!" is the
one who ought to be fired. :-)


Yeah, even the new DSO here requires .NET to move live images to the PC.
Didn't like 2.0, wanted the old 1.1. Oh man. The topper was this morning
when a German said he wanted to register on their WEEE organization for
that new electronic waste tax which the Eurocrats have "invented". The
server responded that he could not register because he was using a Java
version that was too new!

The quality of all those programming environments has IMHO seriously
tanked lately. Problem is, us analog guys can't completely escape it.

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Regards, Joerg

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