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Talulah wrote:
> 
> I am in the process of writing a book about real-time embedded
> development (hardware and software). 
> 
> Unfortunately I'm really a C programmer, with very little experience
> of other languages, ...

I would think that someone qualified to write such a book would be 
familiar with at least one language that was designed for RT embedded SW 
development. Such a language would have things like tasking, timing, and 
fixed-point types built in.

Clearly C is not such a language, so I have to wonder about the 
qualifications of someone who only knows C.