Re: New Software Forum

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Jim Rogers wrote:
> I do plan to write some more articles. Right now I am laying the ground
> work for an article on common patterns for protected objects. I plan to
> present the subject as patterns for monitors used for thread communication.
> All my examples will be Ada protected objects. I considered providing some
> Java examples also, but realized that some of the patterns vary from very
> nasty to impossible in Java. I will keep the examples simple by keeping 
> them
> entirely in Ada.

This sounds like an excellent reason for mentioning Java in the article: 
"I considered providing Java examples as well as Ada, but found that 
they were extremely complicated in Java, and some of them could not be 
implemented in Java at all."

Just as long as you don't refer to yourself as "we" or "the present 
author" or such.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail