[Haskell-cafe] Re: Stone age programming for space age hardware?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 8, 2010, at 14:22 , Michael Schuerig wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2010, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>> I have absolutely no experience with real time system, but if I were
>> tasked to write with these coding standards, I would refuse and
>> instead create a small DSL in Haskell that compiles to the requested
>> subset of C.
>
> Now, the interesting question is, whether it is possible to define a  
> DSL
> that's expressive enough and still can be translated to a very
> restrictive subset of C. I wouldn't expect the on-board  
> functionality of
> a space probe or rover to be trivial.

Hm.  Atom?

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