Michael Schuerig wrote:
I was dumbfounded, although I have known all this. I have no personal experience with either embedded or real time software, but I've been aware that C still is the most popular language for that purpose and that coding standards are very restrictive.
The real reason behind my surprise was, that I was wondering how more modern languages could make inroads into such an environment. Haskell without recursion and dynamic memory allocation? Hard to imagine.
I have absolutely no experience with real time system, but if I were tasked to write with these coding standards, I would refuse and instead create a small DSL in Haskell that compiles to the requested subset of C. After all, the question is this: why use C if you don't actually use C? The reason is probably that designing/writing a proper DSL is considered too error prone, but with today's theorem provers, this should no longer be the case. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com