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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: pontius@btv.vnet.ibm.com (Dale Pontius) Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? (WAS: Re: Avoiding the second historic mistake) Date: 1997/07/08 Message-ID: <5ptcnl$s2s$2@mdnews.btv.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255494625 References: <33A9338D.10BB@polaroid.com> <33B09D64.E7F99DA3@saguarosoft.com> <33B16CBB.417A@gdesystems.com> <33c2aa99.20716474@news.visi.net> Organization: IBM Microelectronics Division Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <33c2aa99.20716474@news.visi.net>, cbass@visi.net.no_spam (Canada Bass) writes: > > I am unsure as to effect of this post, but does M2 have true > multi-tasking to which he was referring to? I know little of any other > language that has a standard multi-tasking function. :) > Modula2 has a fundamental capability of executing coroutines. It has the ability to switch between coroutines, and to enter a coroutine through an interrupt. The interrupt response routine also understands interrupt masks. This is pretty much the minimal set of primitives to implement multitasking Dale Pontius (NOT speaking for IBM)