In the private sector growing companies from out side of the US will get them selves a Silicon Valley address. This an important strategy for continued growth especially for the lucrative US market. From a marketing point of view Americans prefer to buy from someone they see as American and for the rest of the world a Silicon Valley address is seen as pedigree.
I can't speak for any existing Open Source project, but t seems to me, if you have developers from around the globe a Silicon Valley address would be the best of an otherwise arbitrary choice of location if you want market acceptance.
In my first job I found niether, FORTRAN nor C/C++ up to the job. But given that the FORTRAN compiler compiled in to C, I found that it was easy to write C programs that used FORTRAN subroutines. The catch being that the C wrappers I wrote for the FORTRAN subroutines were not portable in their own right as name munging and argument handling was differnt for each operating system.
However the effect was worth while, and gave me a way of dealing with legacy code (all in FORTRAN).
Mixed language programs, is an idea often forgotten, but often give the best solutions.
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In the private sector growing companies from out side of the US will get them selves a Silicon Valley address. This an important strategy for continued growth especially for the lucrative US market. From a marketing point of view Americans prefer to buy from someone they see as American and for the rest of the world a Silicon Valley address is seen as pedigree.
I can't speak for any existing Open Source project, but t seems to me, if you have developers from around the globe a Silicon Valley address would be the best of an otherwise arbitrary choice of location if you want market acceptance.
In my first job I found niether, FORTRAN nor C/C++ up to the job. But given that the FORTRAN compiler compiled in to C, I found that it was easy to write C programs that used FORTRAN subroutines. The catch being that the C wrappers I wrote for the FORTRAN subroutines were not portable in their own right as name munging and argument handling was differnt for each operating system.
However the effect was worth while, and gave me a way of dealing with legacy code (all in FORTRAN).
Mixed language programs, is an idea often forgotten, but often give the best solutions.