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: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-24 04:26:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F990C61.1090207@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early Ada Mistakes References: <1066224357.499523@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066231159.711433@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066311805.222491@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F8F3077.60402@comcast.net> <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> <3F952A59.5090001@noplace.com> <3F96788C.5020309@noplace.com> <3F96E2C6.6010708@comcast.net> <3F975D3C.7050804@noplace.com> <1066919806.19766@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <38adnd5Sk8hwuwWiRVn-tg@gbronline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:26:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1066994794 209.165.0.145 (Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:26:34 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:26:34 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1590 Date: 2003-10-24T11:26:34+00:00 List-Id: 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. > > :-) > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "So if I understand 'The Matrix Reloaded' correctly, the Matrix is basically a Microsoft operating system - it runs for a while and then crashes and reboots. By design, no less. Neo is just a memory leak that's too hard to fix, so they left him in... The users don't complain because they're packed in slush and kept sedated" -- Marin D. Condic ======================================================================