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From: Erich <john@peppermind.com>
Subject: Re: Concurrency always is non-deterministic?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:05:51 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-02-14T02:05:51-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0dbc36f5-15f6-4b47-808c-d19d5ac72cba@x19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6f19eaa9-c75f-4fca-86d4-bfaee2f51db7@k40g2000yqf.googlegroups.com

On Feb 14, 2:18 am, Phil Clayton <phil.clay...@lineone.net> wrote:

> functional programming is unsuitable for systems
> that are any of: real-time, embedded or critical

The first two points, yes, but what about the third. Haven't
functional programming languages like Haskell been used for critical
(high-integrity) applications as a substitute for Ada/Spark, because
they make formal verification very easy?

I'm not claiming it, just believe I've read about it and ask as a
layman out of curiosity.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-14 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-13 17:41 Concurrency always is non-deterministic? Long Hoàng Đình
2012-02-13 18:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 19:38   ` Simon Wright
2012-02-13 19:56     ` Bill Findlay
2012-02-14  1:13       ` Simon Wright
2012-02-14 11:29         ` John B. Matthews
2012-02-14  2:34   ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-13 18:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-13 19:11 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-02-13 22:10 ` Brian Drummond
2012-02-14  2:18 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-14 10:05   ` Erich [this message]
2012-02-14 15:00     ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-14 18:23     ` Jeffrey Carter
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