Re: List Container Straw Man

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Um, it is not wise to challenge a rocket scientist on this point! How
> many satellites have you launched recently? When was the last time you
> had to write code that met a 0.01 millisecond time stamp accuracy
> requirement, and did it continuously for a week straight? There is no
> place for abstract containers in this code; I need to control
> _everything_!

On the other hand, it *is* a "newbie" library. I want to know where an
Ada newbie can get a job writing real-time code to run satellites. :-)
Everything I've seen has required five years or more of embedded
programming experience.
 
Seriously, I think the complications of storage pools, real-time, etc
etc might be too much to put into a simple language. By the time you're
writing your own storage pools, having three instantiations to get to
your desired data type probably isn't a problem, right?

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