Comparative evaluation of high-level real-time programming languages

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-1990

Abstract

Owing to the fast growing need for better means of building real-time systems, a number of representative languages used in real-time programming is surveyed. The evaluation focuses on seven languages which possess explicit real-time features. Based on a categorization of the latter, the seven languages are then compared with respect to their real-time capabilities. The strong points and the limitations of Ada and PEARL, the only high-level real-time languages readily applicable in industrial control environments, are covered in more detail. The evaluation reveals that none of the languages actually used in industry is genuinely real-time. Therefore, a number of new features is suggested for incorporation into existing or future languages and their run-time environments. These proposals are meant to advance the inadequate state of affairs, and also to reignite the discussion of this topic in the real-time community. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Identifier

0008901255 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Real Time Systems

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01995678

e-ISSN

15731383

ISSN

09226443

First Page

365

Last Page

382

Issue

4

Volume

2

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