#: 7224 S3/Languages
    06-Oct-90  01:23:03
Sb: #real time languages
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: all

I just got finished reading a most interesting book *Computer Languages* (by
Naomi S. Baron). Some nice comparisons and interesting perspectives. But what
has me somewhat confused is the comment that C is *not* a language for real
time programming. "Dennis Ritchie makes it quite clear that C was not desinged
to handle more than one operation at a time (that is, it was never intended to
do multiprogramming, which is a necessary component of real-time programming). 
. . . there are no facilities for multiprogramming, parallel operations,
synchronization, or process control."

For this kind of stuff we have to use Ada or Modula-2. Hmmm, I wonder how
real-time systems (like OS-9) manage to do anything at all in light of the
above. Or is there more than one definition of "real-time"? /ex post

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