From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88093378be1184d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 10:04:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BEC1AAF.99531948@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List Container Straw Man References: <9s941p$11mrei$4@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s99tt$pdb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s9s8p$11vt7l$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9scke9$12jb14$4@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:04:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1005329089 66.75.151.160 (Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:04:49 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:04:49 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16153 Date: 2001-11-09T18:04:49+00:00 List-Id: 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? -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. You will soon read a generic fortune cookie.