From: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:14:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217650480.3546.94.camel@moss.renham> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217281654.3546.16.camel@moss.renham>
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 07:47 +1000, Ben Nizette wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded
> > linux work?
>
> I hang out on AVRFreaks - an AVR and AVR32 support forum - quite a bit.
> I personally think C++ is the language of the devil but I'd say that
> around 50% of the people I talk to on 'freaks think otherwise. It's
> certainly the language of choice.
Having said that, I would appear to be quite wrong. Of course, I only
see people's language of choice on a support forum when it doesn't work
as they'd like. From those numbers I got the 50% figure. A quick poll
[1] doesn't even almost agree, though admittedly the sample group isn't
huge yet.
Interesting.
--Ben.
[1]
http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=473243#473243
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-02 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 15:43 prevalence of C++ in embedded linux? Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-28 15:54 ` Chris
2008-07-28 15:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-28 16:15 ` Domenico Andreoli
2008-07-28 17:30 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2008-07-28 21:47 ` Ben Nizette
2008-07-29 5:42 ` Roberto A. Foglietta
2008-08-02 4:14 ` Ben Nizette [this message]
2008-07-29 7:40 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-29 7:51 ` Alexander Neundorf
2008-07-29 8:20 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-29 8:35 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-29 8:58 ` Alexander Neundorf
2008-07-29 9:47 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-29 20:08 ` Leisner, Martin
2008-07-30 4:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-30 10:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 11:04 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-30 11:58 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-30 12:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 13:01 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-30 12:48 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-30 13:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 13:58 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-30 10:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-29 8:50 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-29 11:39 ` Richard Danter
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