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From: "Fredric L. Rice" <frice@linkline.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/09
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"James S. Rogers" wrote:

> >This question has been debated many times, and if the only argument you
> >have for Ada over C++ is this, then this is a weak argument, (Java have
> >build-in support for threads, plus much more rich standard library than
> >Ada).
>
> Java thread support is actually quite weak compared to that in Ada.
> C++ thread support does not exist.

In the OS/2 world it does.  The VisualAge C+ compiler comes with a suit of
APIs for launching and managing multi-threaded as well as multi-tasking (well,
pseudo multitasking, I suppose) applications.

Yeah, it's not part of the language but some venders have taken advantage of
OS/2 to make it work well.