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"Bob continues his article series about the open-source FreeRTOS. In Part 5, Bob looks at the FreeRTOS+POSIX library of functions. He explores what POSIX is, what value the POSIX standard provides to embedded developers and how compatible FreeRTOS is to the POSIX standard. A number of years ago, a book came out entitled Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche. (Figure 1) [1]. In the computer world t his title inspired a number of lists along the lines of “Real Engineers Don’t …” and “Real Programmers Don’t …” Included in those lists were our supposed aversion to reading specifications and manuals (in addition to the fact that “Real Engineers Don’t Know How to Spell Quiche.”) One common joke implied that only novices and cowards actually read specifications and manuals. I have found that there is a slight aversion to reading specifications and manuals among us embedded software and systems designers. But we avoid them only at our peril. In fact, with the advent of our super-complex microprocessor chips, any designer who doesn’t read the datasheets and the errata sheets does so at the peril of the entire project. Figure 1The title of the iconic book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche inspired clever lists in the computer world like “Real Engineers Don’t …” and“Real Programmers Don’t …”. Needless to say (perhaps admitting my cowardice and immaturity), I have read countless manuals and specifications in my time. One aphorism that I have found to be true is that “Real Engineers Don’t Write Good Manuals and Specifications.”" (Extrait de Circuit Cellar n°373)
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