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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 08:08:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!west.cox.net!cox.net!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0A06FC.7EA0653C@san.rr.com> From: Darren New 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: ada paper critic References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> <3D09A3D9.FCFE2426@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:08:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1024067300 66.75.151.160 (Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:08:20 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:08:20 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25943 Date: 2002-06-14T15:08:20+00:00 List-Id: David Marceau wrote: > however the java threading/runnable and concurrency infrastructure are > an after-thought > because they are not part of the java language itself. Of course they are. Or are you forgetting "synchronized"? That "Thread" is a class in Java doesn't mean it's not built in. Or would you consider controlled types not a part of the language in Ada? > In other words one of the best kept secrets on the planet is that ada > run-time and exception handling > is much richer than java in terms of depth and breadth when dealing with > tasking and concurrency. But this is true. It's clear that Ada put a lot more effort into building tasking that's useful and powerful for real applications, rather than tasking to try to make synchronous I/O into asynchronous I/O. Note to language and OS designers: Synchonous I/O is a special case of asynchronous I/O, not vice versa! -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.