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From: jjacobs@well.sf.ca.us (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Real Time OOP
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Date: 14 Sep 90 19:17:40 GMT
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Although I haven't used specifically OO Languages for real-time systems,
I have used OO techniques for many years.  OO techniques are quite
easy to implement in a good macro-assembler, including inheritance,
polymorphism and even dynamic run-time binding.

In fact, OO techniques have been quite common in real-time systems; its
quite obvious that systems that are comprised of many small communicating
tasks, where such tasks are in fact instantiated from a common
program image, are Object Oriented.  I claim that OOLs are in many
cases providing the same facilities that real-time O.S.'es provided, but
at a finer granularity and with less overhead.

Jeffrey M. Jacobs
ConsArt Systems Inc, Technology & Management Consulting
P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
voice: (213)376-3802, E-Mail: 76702.456@COMPUSERVE.COM