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Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
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NKSW39B@prodigy.com (Matthew Givens) wrote:

 Others include indequate programming tools for the language 
>and tasking problems (Ada tasking won't work with the graphic front-end, 
>no work-around possible, they tell me).  

I think they are lying.  It should be possible to map Ada tasks to Solaris
threads.  But it may not be simple given the other constraints imposed by the
existing compiler and run-time library, and the vendor may simply not have
fiscal justification for the undertaking.