Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 12/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:07:26 +0100


Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

> Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
>> It may be mentioned that for such real-time applications
>> ADA's tasking concept seems to be well suited. A PL that
>> was quite popular in real-time applications decades ago
>> (I am ignorant of its current status) is Pearl.
>
>
> Surely you can't be talking about Larry Wall's "perl",
> which is not at all suited for real-time applications.
> So what *are* you referring to?

No. See http://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/pearl/pearl-gb.html
It's development was supported/pushed mostly by some people
in Germany. At the time I happened to know a tiny little bit
about it there were also a couple of other real-time PLs
in use in the industry. I have forgotten their names, however.

M. K. Shen



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