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On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <pfgshield-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW;
I went on to check that Embedded C++ that David Nugent mentioned,
and I found
this:
http://www.caravan.net/ec2plus/
Acording to the Q&A section:
"The goal of EC++ is to provide embedded systems programmers with a
subset of
C++ that is easy for the average C programmer to understand and
use. The subset
should offer upward compatibility with ISO/ANSI Standard C++ and
retain the
major advantages of C++.
To achieve the goal, several guidelines were established for
creating the
subset such as avoiding excessive memory consumption (overhead) and
removing
complex features." ...
And also FWIW, I wouldn't object to having support for other languages
(Objective C ? ), if someone has/finds modules that could use the
features.
I've been keeping track on this discussion, and I guess I'll toss my
2 cents in here. Objective-C, while a wonderful smalltalk-ish
language (I use it daily), is definitely not nearly as suitable as C+
+ for kernel modules, or embedded programming for that matter. The
Core Audio framework on Mac OS X is mostly C++ for performance
reasons, for example.
Objective-C's reliance on message passing is probably as suitable for
kernel modules as C# via Mono is, the runtime is a bit too bloated
IMHO and because of the inherent design the two languages they just
aren't suited (again IMHO) for real time work, or performance
dependent functionality.
Of course, if anybody has any links to anything performance intensive
(audio code is the best example in my book) using either C# or ObjC
then I will both be shocked and sickened ;)
I really can't think of support for any other languages that would be
good to add, C & C++ cover most of what the rest of the world writes
their lower level code in.
Cheers,
- -R. Tyler Ballance
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