Re: Early Ada Mistakes

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Yeah, you'd not want to carve in silicon all the features that should be 
maleable in software. But that was a mistake in judgement that might 
have had some impact on creating the impression that Ada was inherently 
slow. What *does* make sense is to make sure you have primitives that 
make the job easier. Things like supporting context switching 
efficiently so that tasks are faster, etc. To that end, Ada has 
contributed something to the world of microprocessors.

MDC

Wes Groleau wrote:

> 
> Cute.  Let's support Ada, except let's not support
> any efficiency-oriented features like pragma Suppress.
> 
> :-)
> 


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