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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (379848)	4/22/2008 10:46:46 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1578501

"Unix could easily be written in Pascal, given the addition of a couple of the minor modifications that Borland made to Pascal. " Sure. But then it isn't standard any more. Like Turbo Pascal itself. I actually liked it starting with version 7. But it was very different than ISO Pascal. And that has resulted in two flavors of the language, Borland and ISO. "As to VISTA, it just isn't right for the business I work in (primarily, Part B providers)." Then it isn't the right tool. "neither of us has any idea what "league" the other is in when it comes to software development." That is true. I moved away from applications some years back and have been working embedded and new product development. Moved down to doing hardware acceleration of certain functions and integrating that into the tool chain, modifying the compilers and support libraries to support it. And I have done plenty of stuff end to end, from initial design meetings to the time it was handed off to manufacturing. Including pacemakers, gel electrophoresis, printers and other devices. Programming has gotten boring. Because the demand is so high, the tools are built to be used by people who don't necessarily understand what is going on in the system. So the only creativity left is in the initial design process. After that, it is handed off to the grunts. Some things are still fun. I recently discovered Ruby on Rails. The Rails framework allows you to put together a simple web app that backends to a SQL database in literally minutes. It is fully buzz word compliant(CoC, DRY, etc.) and uses the Model/View/Controller architecture so it is easy to figure where you have to go to make what changes and the components are loosely coupled so bugs don't easily propagate through the project but stay localized so you can find them. It has been a long time since I have found a tool I was really excited about.