From: tannen@dudley.geg.mot.com (David Tannen)
Subject: Re: Tasks vs Task Types
Date: 1996/05/10
Date: 1996-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996May10.154545.1245@schbbs.mot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3191319D.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com
>>>What is the difference between Tasks and Task Types?
>>
>>You can instantiate a generic w/ a task type but not with a task 8-).
>>(Think of the possibilities - link list of tasks <G>).
>>
>
>I know of code that implements a stack of tasks, where each task
>puts ITSELF back on the stack when it is done processing.
Ted is correct, there are plenty of good reasons to use task types
and ADTs. I have been on projects where we used a link list of
task types to control I/O between different boxes. It worked very
well.
Sorry about being flippant.
David Tannen (tannen@dudley.geg.mot.com)
Motorola, Scottsdale (602) 675-1074 m/s H1119
Member of TCCCS/Iris, TeamAda, and TeamOS/2
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1996-05-10 0:00 ` David Tannen [this message]
1996-05-07 0:00 Tasks vs Task Types Michael Levasseur
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-05-08 0:00 ` David Tannen
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