Praxis: An alternative to Ada
This report describes Praxis, a modern, complete, block structures, strongly typed, programming language, comparable to Ada, and with special emphasis toward meeting systems programming requirements on all level machines. Praxis is considered as a possible alternative to Ada in certain applications. Praxis has been used since 1980 on the distributed control system for the Nova high energy laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A description of the intended applications, the history of development, and an overview of the features of the language with comparisons to the Pascal and Ada languages, are given. The features are described in four categories: general appearance, power, insurance of freedom from errors, and manageability.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6440597
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-96628; CONF-870552-7; ON: DE87009943
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. conference on real-time computer applications in nuclear, particle, and plasma physics, San Francisco, CA, USA, 12 May 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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