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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.215.68 with SMTP id hd4mr11535021qab.5.1371534923788; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:55:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.28.66 with SMTP id z2mr421533qeg.5.1371534923765; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!j2no583886qak.0!news-out.google.com!y6ni3349qax.0!nntp.google.com!j2no583882qak.0!postnews.google.com!x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=105.236.184.29; posting-account=p-xPhAkAAADjHQWEO7sFME2XBdF1P_2H NNTP-Posting-Host: 105.236.184.29 References: <19595886.4450.1332248078686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfy7> <2012032020582259520-rblove@airmailnet> <12ee9bc5-3bdf-4ac0-b805-5f10b3859ff4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/536.30.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.5 Safari/536.30.1,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <6c58fae4-6c34-4d7a-ab71-e857e55897c0@x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada advocacy From: Peter Brooks Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:55:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:15801 Date: 2013-06-17T22:55:23-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 18, 3:28=A0am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Ada was basically the first LANGUAGE that defined multi-t= asking IN THE > LANGUAGE itself. Before it, one had to use OS specific system calls to > create tasks -- if such a call was even available, in contrast to creatin= g > processes at the command line level. > The second. Algol68 did.