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Cesar Rabak wrote:
> 
> And why cannot C be augmented by RTOSs and other systems software to 
> achieve this?

It can. You can also write everything in assembler. Both are very error 
prone. Neither is very portable.

> Instead of taking profit of an opportunity you rather just spit a bit of 
> arrogance?

Let's see ... It's not arrogant to write a book on RT embedded SW 
development when one is ignorant of basic tools for the task, but it is 
arrogant to point it out? Thanks for pointing that out to me.