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Subject: Re: Ada folks need to talk to C++ folks more
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On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:34:01 AM UTC-4, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 31.07.12 08:08, wrp wrote:
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> > With good graphics support, maybe Ada would be ready to support game
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> > engine development.
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> A an engine for new hardware?
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> I.e., build computers that are especially good for playing
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> games, so cheap and easy to program that it becomes disruptive?
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> Maybe Ravenscar like profiles might be interesting, except that
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> a character/object/whatever would have to be allowed to die.
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> Who is going to finance so vague an idea?
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> An engine for existing hardware?
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> XBox is by Microsoft. Dark matter. I don't think they would do
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> more than just emborg a few good bits they happen to see in Ada,
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> and then continue to use their own compiler technology.
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> If they haven't already done so.
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> Sony? I heard they have dropped the idea of specialized
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> hardware facing both a lack of knowledgeable programmers
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> ("Too difficult to program!") and a short life cycle of
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> CPUs making standard CPUs and standard graphics processors
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> capable enough. OTS components will mean relatively lower cost.
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> And even if not, Ada is only beginning to get run-time systems
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> tailored to these types of computers, AFAIK.
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> 
> Nevertheless, some types of real-time communication
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> are said to be easier to express in Ada. Is there much use
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> of consensus protocols in game engines? If so, are they
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> better with Ada?
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> Apple's hardware. Perhaps one could use SofCheck's (now AdaCore's)
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> compiler and write the thing in Ada, using compiler output (C and
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> also C++) as input to the compilers that Apple suggests one
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> should use. Will current Ada tasking support programmers, though?
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> If there is no Ada RTS that has tasking employ Apple's
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> Grand Central Dispatch, won't this create a schism between
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> types of concurrent objects?

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