From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: ada project
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:33:19 GMT
Date: 2001-09-24T15:33:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3nIr7.3110$ev2.2320@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9oneph$8jq$1@nh.pace.co.uk
In article <9oneph$8jq$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>Tasking is one of the unique features of Ada & a very powerful one at that.
>This would be a good choice for a project to illustrate the power of Ada.
>(Especially if you have a compiler and target machine that support multiple
>processors!)
>
>Without knowing how large or complex a program you must come up with, it is
>hard to suggest an interesting parallel-programming project. A simple one
>might be to create tasks for sorting a deck of cards. The main program
I had an OS class where we built a mini-OS (on top of the real one, of course),
using tasks. We used Concurrent-C for it, but I always thought Ada would have
been a much better choice.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-23 3:47 ada project Aba A�over
2001-09-23 15:07 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-09-24 7:23 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-09-24 13:47 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-24 14:08 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-24 15:10 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-09-24 15:33 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-09-24 15:58 ` Marin David Condic
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