Re: [amsat-bb] Flight Computers

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 04:27, Edson Pereira wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Margaret Leber wrote:
> > Sounds like strong arguments for using Java. :-)
> That is what I used to think. Until I started experiencing SIGSEGVs
> from the virtual machine. :-(
Sounds like you had a sucky JVM. Of course that's an a 
vulnerability...but I'll bet your JVM was written in C.

> Java is an excelent language for academical use and gives good object
> oriented programing practices to students, unlike c++. But it is
> still debatable if it is a good solution for embedded devices or
> where performance is an issue.

The Java performance story is one *heck* of a lot better than it used 
to be back in 1995-1998. 

> It would be good if all EEs could learn assembly, c, c++, java, and
> most importantly, data structures and system modeling. Then she/he
> will be able to decide which one of the languages might be more
> appropriate for some specific task and be able to model and document
> the project so that some other engineer can understand how the code
> fits in the whole system.

Um...it *might* be good (for some valkues of "good")...but by the time 
you were done they'd all have CompSci degrees. I've seen people who 
didn't want to do software forced to learn assembler; it's ugly.

Maybe it would just be better to teach them how to get along with 
software people. :-)

 73 de Maggie K3XS 

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