- Supporting BlackBox

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:22:17 -0400 (EDT)

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On Thu, 11 May 2006, WSFPGA wrote:

> How many we are ?

>From my site:

1 senior researcher (myself) and two undergraduate students.
The number of undergraduate students fluctuates between
zero and two in any given academic year.

> How many use BB at industry ?

Zero at my site.

> How many use BB at not profit projects and accept support BB ?

My projects are non-profit. I doubt I can obtain funding for
a project "just keep it alive". I could possibly have funding
to support one of our internal projects. However, I am facing
a stiffling opposition from a team of career software engineers.
My Blackbox projects are moving forward about 10x faster than
their C/C++ projects. This fact is well known in the organization.
It only makes the career people more hostile.

> We use BB at industry; basicaly as internal tool,
> our customers "love" our tools but...

But what?

Why is "love" in quotation marks? Does this mean "hate"?

--Wojtek

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