Re: Ada not mentioned in GCC 4.3 release notes

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.plus-bug.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de>]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:29 +0600, Ivan Levashew wrote:
> Britt Snodgrass пишет:
> > Yes, I agree that its looks bad.  I've raised the issue on the gcc
> > list before but nothing has happened.
> 
> 
> I think there are better ways to raise popularity of Ada. Those who are 
> heading FOSS development seem to be completely unaware of Ada. For 
> example, A. S. Tanenbaum in his "Modern Operating Systems", chapter 2 
> "Processes and threads" used Pidgin Pascal he just invented to 
> demonstrate Hoare monitors:
> 
> monitor ProducerConsumer
>          condition full, empty;
...
> It's not about preferences, it's what complete unawareness is! How many 
> people are reinventing Ada?

Without reading the red-top press of computer society 
I can't tell who publicly announces awareness of what or
whom for what reasons etc..
 But for one thing, is seems a certain truth that Tanenbaum has
heard of Ada. (And I hate to judge the ears of other people.)
I think it is one of the conclusions one may draw from an
article comparing concurrency features of the Orca
programming language and the then new protected types of Ada.

Even Ada instructors seem to have reason to use a language besides
Ada. I see that in the Monitors section (3.9) of Burns/Wellings.
They show a non-Ada source including the keyword "monitor"
and the type "CONDITION_VARIABLE". Compare this to the example
you found ;-)