From: vladimir@prosper (Vladimir G. Ivanovic)
Subject: Re: Ada tasking
Date: 25 May 90 16:23:45 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <136227@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden)
In article <20075@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn (Ted Holden) writes:
>Tasking is naturally an operating system feature; the idea of tasking
>as a part of a language is one of the dumber ideas since communism.
Here are a few reasons for making tasking a language feature:
(1) The compiler can be used to check the semantics of tasking as well as its
syntax.
(2) The same model is used by all implementations.
(3) A tasking library is limited to a procedure call interface. One can't have
the nicely readable syntax of Ada's tasking constructs.
Cheers,
-- Vladimir
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic vladimir@sun.com
M/S 12-33 vladimir@prosper.ebb.eng.sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. vivanovic@sun.com
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1990-05-25 4:18 Ada tasking Ted Holden
1990-05-25 16:23 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic [this message]
1990-05-25 18:05 ` Pat Rogers
1990-05-26 0:22 ` Charles H. Sampson
1990-05-26 9:35 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1990-05-26 7:08 ` Dan Kary
1990-05-29 10:02 ` Mike Harrison
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1996-05-02 0:00 Ada Tasking W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1988-12-02 2:03 Ada tasking John R. Mudd
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