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From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Searching for realtime languages
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Date: 29 May 89 15:42:05 GMT
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In article <14355@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <2100@internal.Apple.COM> jmt@apple.com (Michael Tindell) writes:
[request for realtime HLL]
>I am posting this via Followup rather than mail because it's time
>PL/M raised its head in comp.realtime.  I recommend PL/M as a realtime
>language of choice in all Intel CPU environments from 8051 to 80486.

I've had only one, brief, painful experience with PL/M, and I'd never
touch it again.  This is mostly because I'm a long-time C hacker, and
where ever there was a design choice to be made, the PL/M creators
seem to have gone out of there way to choose the OPPOSITE one that C
did.  I suppose that it's not that bad a programming language, but it
made my brain HURT to try to write & debugg code using it.

>-- 
>Tom Neff				UUCP:     ...!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
>    "Truisms aren't everything."	Internet: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET

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