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Ada UK Conference 2006 (slides & videos)Good stuff here, especially if you want to learn more about Ada 2005. Robert Dewar's talk on Ada 2005 & high integrity systems should be of general interest. The main argument is that quality depends at least as much, if not more, on the language culture than it does on specific language features. Dewar presents some of the elements that contribute to Ada's success in the mission critical world which demands high quality software. Among them: emphasis on readability, static typing, the package construct and the ability to subset the language (e.g., SPARK and RAVENSCAR). The talk isn't about the technical aspects of these features, but on how they influence the way programmers approach their tasks. Alan Burns discusses the Real time issues in Ada 2005. This revision of the language adds many important features (such as CPU monitoring and accounting, budgeting for the execution time of groups of tasks, and new scheduling polices including non-premeption, round robin, and Earliest Deadline First) to an already rich concurrency model. The non surprising conclusion is that Ada is the best language for RT programming not only on earth, but in the entire universe... |
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