NDLI: Language choice for safety critical applications

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Rogers, James S.
Abstract	The programming languages currently most popular among software engineers for writing safety critical applications are C and, more recently, C++. The Ada language has been designed with software safety in mind. Although Ada is not perfect concerning safety critical programming, it is far better than C or C++. There have been definitions of subsets of C for safety critical applications, such as MISRA C. Similarly, there are several attempts at defining a safe subset of C++, including MISRA C++ and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Avionics C++ coding standards. The most commonly used safety critical subset of Ada is SPARK. SPARK provides a statically provable fully deterministic subset of Ada. The C and C++ safety critical subsets attempt to achieve a level of safety similar to the full Ada language. That attempt generally fails. This paper concentrates on a comparing the C++ language, including portions of the JSF C++ standard and those features inherited from C, with the full Ada language.
Starting Page	81
Ending Page	90
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10943641
DOI	10.1145/2070336.2070363
Journal	ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (ALET)
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1989-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Safety-critical Safety
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Language choice for safety critical applications