Programming language efficiency in real-time software systems
James O. Henriksen, Richard E. Merwin · 1971
Early in the development cycle of a real-time software system, the designer must select one or more programming languages to be used in writing the system. As shown in Figure 1, there is available today a continuum of programming languages ranging from "high-level" languages like PL/I to "low-level" traditional assembly languages.