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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: Can OO be successful in real-time embedded systems?
- In-Reply-To: Henning Rietz's message of Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:32:53 +0000
- Message-ID: <JSA.96Apr11152550@organon.com>
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- Organization: Organon Motives, Inc.
- References: <316BF0C5.1FE1@condat.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:25:50 GMT
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- In article <316BF0C5.1FE1@condat.de> Henning Rietz <rietz@condat.de> writes:
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- I would believe that Ada folk have more to say on this than most. So,
- I am crossing it over to c.l.a too...
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- /Jon
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- > To whom it may concern:
- >
- > For the last couple of weeks I have been involved in a major survey on
- > the use of object oriented techniques in the area of telecommunications
- > (mainly in the German speaking region).
- > I can say "everybody" is using OO in some areas (mainly network
- > management, switch provisioning, customer care), BUT there are (almost)
- > no examples in the area of (small) embedded systems, main reasons for
- > that being:
- >
- > - "OO systems are too slow"
- > - "OO systems eat up too much memory"
- >
- > I believe, that this is not necessarily true but heavily related to
- > experience. Now I=B4m asking you:
- >
- > How far "down" does the application of OO really go?
- > How far will it go in the future?
- > Who develops commercial(!) embedded real-time systems
- > using OO methods and languages?
- > Will OO ever be of major importance in that area?
- >
- > If you have an opinion concerning these questions please share it with
- > me! Even those who think they=B4ll "never use that OO-stuff".
- >
- > Regards,
- >
- > Henning
- > -- =
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- > Henning Rietz c/o
- > Condat GmbH Telephone: +49.30.39094-179
- > Alt-Moabit 91D Fax: +49.30.39094-300
- > 10559 Berlin, Germany E-Mail: rietz@condat.de
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