[j-nsp] MX104 capabilities question

[Gavin Henry]

On 22 Jun 2016 13:51, "Saku Ytti" <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
>
> On 22 June 2016 at 10:41, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:
> >>> Can you expand on what you mean by the following quote: "I think they
are
> >>> fundamentally able to produce less buggy code than
> >>> JNPR or CSCO.
> >
> > yeah if there's any fundamental about it, it's that it carry less
> > legacy, is more general purpose, and has less hardware, wierd corner
> > cases and unreasonable customer demands to support. It has it share of
> > bugs, missing features and hardware specific limitations and quirks.
>
> This comment was specifically about how they write the software. I
> don't believe market has enough skilled labour to write any
> significant SLOC on C. I think use of C puts any company in
> disadvantage due to the cost of introducing bugs.
>

That last sentence is quite a sweeping statement about C.

> Arista, as I understand it, does not use C, but code is predominantly
> C++, and even for that, good portions of the C++ code are generated
> from higher level internal language.

There are massive Linux Kernel Hackers of course, which of course uses C.

> Combine these, and I think it makes Arista fundamentally more able to
> produce better software.

You can make great software in any language. I think this argument is
false.

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