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>> Peter Froehlich writes:
>> >   Regarding  GC:   The  point  here  is  that  Oberon-2  is advocated as a
>> >"general  purpose  language".   But think about real-time systems where one
>> >usually  can't  guarantee  response times when working with a GC (okay, one
>> >probably will not even use NEW() in such a project either).
>> 
>> Ok, in all Oberon systems that i have seen, the GC isn't a very
>> sophisticated one. But there are nowadays even real-time GC
>> Implemetations available. And look for example at the Elang Language and
>> its implementaion by Ericsson. They use it for writing telephony
>> software. So GC and functional languages have gone a long way. Surely
>> would it be possible to incorporate a real-time GC in OBeron.
>
>Do you have any pointers or papers written about Elang and it's garbage
>collection algorithms?
>
>> Andreas Eder
>

The language referred to is called Erlang.
For information about it, look at the Ericsson web server:
  http://www.ericsson.se/Projects.html
(and follow the links)
or directly to:
  http://www.ericsson.se/erlang

Hope this helps,

J.-P.

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