Abstractions are certainly not "bad", there are many abstractions in Ntimed, it's also pretty object-oriented if you care to take a look. This is more a matter

Abstractions are certainly not "bad", there are many abstractions in Ntimed, it's also pretty object-oriented if you care to take a look. This is more a matter of "the right language for the job" and for timing-critical systems programming running as root, that language is C. And there are plenty of common abstractions I would love see added to the C language: basic linked lists, byte-endianess and packing for struct members, validity intervals for integers and FP variables (like Ada!) Unfortunately my taste seems to be the direct opposite of ISO-C which have instead wasted time giving us another thread-API.