This is a desirable property because of/due to its usefulness in designing a computer program.

[galois]

Hi friends,
I am unsure whether to use 'because of' or 'due to' in the following sentence:

This is a desirable property because of its usefulness in designing a computer program.
This is a desirable property due to its usefulness in designing a computer program.

Or maybe neither is correct. I appreciate your help.

 

[tedmc]

What property are you talking about which can design a computer programme? Is it a machine or am equipment? We don't normally refer to such things as "property". Otherwise, I would use "because of" .

 

[jutfrank]

I think both are inaccurate since you're not talking about cause. Its usefulness is not really a 'reason' for being desirable but rather the 'way in which' it is desirable. If I'm right about what you mean, then you can say this:

This is a desirable property with respect to its usefulness in designing a computer program.

Another easier way you can get a similar meaning is with in.

This is a desirable property in its usefulness in designing a computer program.

 

[Tarheel]

What kind of property can design computer programs?

 

[jutfrank]

What kind of property can design computer programs?

Properties can't design computer programs. The OP means to say that there is something that has a particular property, and that this property is desirable with respect to its usefulness in designing computer programs.

 

[Tarheel]

@galois Say:

I would appreciate your help.

(I think mostly computers are used to design computer programs. (I could be wrong.).)

 

[galois]

What property are you talking about which can design a computer programme? Is it a machine or am equipment? We don't normally refer to such things as "property". Otherwise, I would use "because of" .

In order to give more context, the idea goes like this:

In Section 1 we study some of the nonlinear codes recently presented in [11]. Some of these codes are found to have the important property that any nonzero codeword is maximal. This is a desirable property due to/because of its usefulness in designing an efficient decoding algorithm.

 

[galois]

I think both are inaccurate since you're not talking about cause. Its usefulness is not really a 'reason' for being desirable but rather the 'way in which' it is desirable. If I'm right about what you mean, then you can say this:

This is a desirable property with respect to its usefulness in designing a computer program.

Another easier way you can get a similar meaning is with in.

This is a desirable property in its usefulness in designing a computer program.

Thanks for the reply. So, in the paragraph:

In Section 1 we study some of the nonlinear codes recently presented in [11]. Some of these codes are found to have the important property that any nonzero codeword is maximal. This is a desirable property due to/with respect to/in its usefulness in designing an efficient decoding algorithm.

The correct way to write it would be with in, right?

 

[jutfrank]

The correct way to write it would be with in, right?

Yes, right.

 

[tedmc]

I think "with respect to" is a bit too formal compared to "because of".

Q: Why is the equipment desirable?
A: It is desirable because of its usefulness to do ....

 

[jutfrank]

I think "with respect to" is a bit too formal compared to "because of".

They have different meanings.

Q: Why is the equipment desirable?
A: It is desirable because of its usefulness to do ....

Although 'because' does answer the question 'why?', it's not what the speaker means in this context. The question is 'how?' or 'in what way?'.