Most of HP's work is writting code for inside printers, etc. Most likely machine code which is closer to being dos than WINDOWS. If a newbee can't handle dos he's probably not worth keeping. Alot of companies hire 100 newbees but really only plan to keep 50. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the code inside printers is based on dos, maybe FREEDOS.
DS On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:04:59 -0500 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:55 PM, dmccunney > <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 3/21/2018 11:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > > >>> Dos may have alot of limits but you can still get alot done with > it. > >>> HP could use FREEDOS development to break in their new > >>> engineers. Most companies fire halft of their hires in a few > months > >>> if they can't produce. Dos could be used to weed them out. > >> > >> Not going to happen. Because a lot of programming paradigms and > tools for > >> today's environments are completely different that what would > required for > >> DOS. And yes, that includes GCC and similar abominations... > > Yes, DOS works differently, but isn't that what an engineer (or > similar guru) is supposed to do? Make things work, fix problems, > etc.? > I don't expect miracles, and I don't demand anyone else waste their > time, but is it really that hard and impossible? Is it really just > difficulty and lack of skill? Or are there other reasons? > > > Yep. DOS is simply long obsolete. > > So is C++11 (in lieu of '17). Should all old code be obsoleted? I > somehow doubt modern web browsers would like being forced to > migrate. > It's always harder than it sounds. > > Lernigu la esperantan, la angla ekmortas! Ho, ve'! > > > For that matter, we are seeing signs GCC is gradually being > abandoned. Google's Android development, > > for example, has shifted to using the Clang front end to LLVM. > Clang and LLVM don't support as many > > targets as GCC does, and doesn't *plan* to. (GCC can compile Ada > code. LLVM isn't going near that...) > > Google can use whatever compiler they want, they have that luxury. > That doesn't mean GCC is "dying". > > GCC is still widely used, and indeed GNAT still is commercially > supported by AdaCore. > > It's things like FPC (Free Pascal) that are (mostly, AFAIK) > volunteer > efforts and thus unpaid. And while FPC isn't as popular as GCC, it's > extremely good. Ironically, they have less devs for Windows but tons > more users there, not to mention support for many other OSes and > arches. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ After Weeks Of Rumors, Joanna Gaines Comes Clean risingstarnewspaper.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5ab3f2f26be272f118dfst01duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
