Would be interesting to know if RS use ( or have written ) any regression testing and unit testing tools. They can take a lot of effort to set up ) often requiring separate test staff resource just to set up the test cases and harness etc ) but might help.
I am hoping that once the horrid task of migrating to UB is over, things will settle down. On 26/9/06 20:15, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote: > >> I honestly think that the only way RB can attain some kind of >> "ubiquity" >> against the behemoth of Microsoft and entrenched "pro" cachet of C+ >> +, is to >> free advanced RB professional developers from having to resort to C >> just to >> get the desired speed. There is no reason why RB cannot be both an >> easy >> language to learn AND one that provides enough options to do things >> the C >> way where it is desired. > > stability stability stability > > C and C++ are widely used because their runtime are very stable. Very > few show stopping bugs in long established code. > Cure they give you the rope to hang yourself if you write bad code, > but the standard libraries they include rarely do this to you. > It's not JUST speed you get from C and C++. In fact if you want speed > for certain kind of algorithms Fortran still blows the doors of C and > C++. > And in other Snobol is better. > If you want speed write in hand optimized assmebler for your platform. > It's been a while but the Vax assembler I used to write was always > faster than anything the compilers could chunk out. It just took > longer to get the speed improvements. > > Since RB is a "closed" language (there are no third party compilers) > and the runtime is also not "open" like C/C++ standard libraries are > they need to be very bug free. > While I certainly LOVE lots of compiler optimizations, for me > significantly reduced bug counts would be even more welcome. > Speed with lots of bugs is not useful. > > As for being able to write anything in RB that's an eventuality. > > But I'd take stable, relatively bug free runtimes first > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
