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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Concurrency always is non-deterministic?
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On 13/02/2012 19:38, in article m28vk634mr.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
<simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> In a narrower sense, RT is when the quality of a value (e.g. of a
>> response) depends on the real time. For example, when that value
>> degrades as the time passes. Hard real-time is when the value reaches
>> 0 in bounded time. A program is said to be real time, when it
>> processes certain values before their quality degrades below specified
>> (usually by the application domain) level.
> 
> A somewhat different statement from the one I'm used to, which is pretty
> much as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

"The needs of real-time software requires the use of one or more synchronous
programming languages" ??

Methinks someone is grinding a proprietary axe.

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