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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: question about tasks, multithreading and multi-cpu machines
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:59:45 +0100
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:06:12 +0100, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> The tasks in Ada do not match any of the above. Other languages (for 
> example Java) also got it wrong, by treating threads as objects or even 
> by allowing a programmer to "subclass" or "specialize" a thread class. 

Hmm, if task type is a type then it should obey operations of the types
algebra, which includes inheritance, aggregation. So I vote for tagged task
types.

What could be an alternative? Honestly I can't think anything useful out.

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