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From: Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: A (hopefully) interesting question...
Date: 2000/10/06
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Sploo wrote:
> 
> > Your real-time OS (You will be using a real-time OS right? They aren't
> > *that* stupid are they?)  should have lots of intertask/process
> > communications primitives of various levels of abstraction. You'll just
> > have to acquaint yourself with what process/tasking kenel your OS is
> > using, how it schedules, and what communications and synchronization
> > primitives are available.
> 
> Yup. Some of the stuff I've been looking at supports features such as
> Queues, Pipes, Semaphores, Signals and Events. Just seems a lot simpler in
> Ada...
> 
> > Good luck. I give you about 2 weeks before you start seriously annyoing
> > everyone by repeating "in Ada this would have been *so* much easier"
> > every 10 minutes. :-)
> 
> Most probably. But then I'd get beaten with the Kernighan & Ritchie ANSI C
> book :)

I've managed to get my repetitive frequency up to 45 minutes from 5, but
I still get beaten daily with the K&R book :-)
-- 
Scott Ingram
Vice-Chair, Baltimore SIGAda
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory