Re: Ada advocacy

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:25:01 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 27/08/2013 15:34, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> Why did you said “no big loss” about the rendez‑vous? What's your known
>> issues with rendez‑vous? I never used concurrency a lot until now, so
>> that's really a question, because I may  (or may not, I still don't
>> know) have to use it.
> It's a one person's opinion, that I certainly don't share.
> 
> Rendezvous are a high level concept, easy to use because close to what
> you do in real life. Only those who think close to the bare machine have
> issues with rendezvous. And don't forget a big plus of rendezvous over
> protected objects: termination is (can be) automatic, without devising
> some complicated handshaking.

Another plus is that rendezvous need not to be non-blocking and may include
lengthy actions.

Rendezvous could be easily extended on a distributed system, which would be
practically impossible for protected objects.

I think that for distributed and massively parallel systems rendezvous
clearly beat protected objects.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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