Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 10 Mar, 20:01, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org>

> You claimed you wrote multithreaded SW in C; I said that you wrote it in C plus
> a threading library that you did not write, which is not writing it in C.

Fine. Let's go on:

Those who use Ada and any external library that they did not write
themselves are not writing in Ada.

Not counting those who target the hardware directly, every programmer
uses some services offered by the operating system. Even things such
obvious as file operations use system services. By your logic, using
files is not writing in Ada, because the related system services are
not written by those who use them. GUI? Not Ada. Network? Not Ada. By
your logic almost every application I can think of is not Ada.

Funny - you can write multitasking Ada program, which is completely
useless. The very moment it tries to become useful by interacting with
external world with the help of some system services it is no longer
Ada.

Really, your hand-waving does not move anything forward.

No matter how much you hate this idea, I can write multithreaded
software in C++.

> those who use C by choice have already demonstrated that they want to
> waste their time.

Yes. That's why some use C++. Or Ada.

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