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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Things that OO programming lacks
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:39:27 +0100
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Date: 2014-11-16T20:39:27+01:00
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:54:06 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> I didn't list event-driven AKA data-driven paradigm in my list of
>> paradigms, since it is so horrific, that nobody should seriously
>> consider it as useful.
> 
> The event-driven approach to (real-time) software is the only way to
> build such systems: any other way is bound to lead to confusion and
> disaster.

On the contrary, real-time software requires predictability, which leads to
rather to polling-based architectures oriented to the worst case scenario.

But architecture of given piece of software /= programming paradigm,
anyway.

Examples data/even-driven languages are MatLab/SIMULINK, LabView, Diadem.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de