That's all the product of people being "smart" and using HLL's which, as you say, follow the academically imposed model and rules. Keep in mind, too, that the tools are written by people who not only never have to use them to earn their living, but who don't care whether they work properly or not, since they'll have had their payoff and now own their private island in the South Pacific.

All of what you say is true, and it, exactly, is the reason I keep harping on the notion that every embedded programmer should be expert in ASM for at least a couple of years before he's allowed to use a HLL that also exists for the PC, whether under LINUX or Windows.

All they seem to want is shortcuts, shortcuts, and more shortcuts. Writing crap in HLL is just as easy as doing it in ASM, and happens much more often.

Yes, managers are always yelling, "Ship it, ferGodssake" when they ought to be asking, "Has it passed long-term testing yet?"

When one support person tells you that something, something that every fool knows is entirely possible, is not possible, you know it's just an excuse for their product's weaknesses, and that's sufficient cause for never considering any product of theirs again.

Likewise, when a hardware vendor's support person makes totally unsupportable claims, that's reason enough never to consider their products again.

The reason "they" (whatever that means) are all oriented to money now is that so many fools buy before they look. If you look at their documentation, you can tell whether they intended to produce a solid product, or whether they wanted to build a lot of "zoom" with false advertising and subsequently sell the company to some hapless victim. A good example over the past few years has been the iPhone. I know of nobody who's been happy enough with 'em to say they met the advertising-induced expectations. Most owners thereof seem to be happy that APPLE finally got 'em to work ... sort-of. This syndrome, BTW, is not unique to the telecom industry, or to the PC industry. It seems that people with money in their pockets are just stupid until it's gone.

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