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Date: 30 Sep 92 13:54:44 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut
.utexas.edu!larry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Larry Maturo)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility
Message-ID: <1992Sep30.135444.10417@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
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In article <1992Sep29.152124.8143@brt.deakin.edu.au> dougcc@brt.deakin.edu.au (
Douglas Miller) writes:
>In article <244.237.uupcb@nitelog.com>, michael.hagerty@nitelog.com
>(Michael Hagerty) writes:
>
>> The most coneheaded response I've heard to the question, "Why didn't you
>> do it in Ada, the mandated language?" was, "We had to be compatible with
>> X-windows, 
>
>I suppose their documentation for Xlib calls used C syntax, so they think
>this means they have to use C?  Coneheaded indeed.
>
>> It seems that all the excuses are like a**holes; everyone has one and
>> they all stink...
>
>How true...


To be fair Xlib is not suitable to mulitasking and most large Ada systems use
tasking.  There is no good solution to this probelem yet.  There are kludgy
workarounds however.  C++ will face this same problem if it ever gets tasking
added to it.  Modula-3 is the only language I know of that has a good multitask
ing
X-Windows compatible solution.  By the way, we use Ada and an X-Windows kludge
here so I'm not knocking Ada.

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