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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: <79lcg7$rj7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441823723 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <79dodb$rhf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79jeos$bu4@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <79k65l$s0t@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Feb 08 00:52:26 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79k65l$s0t@drn.newsguy.com>, mike wrote: > This is really a question of "should a langauge have a > build-in support for threads or not" . This is not a > question of libraries. Of *course* this is a question of libraries. Thread safety is a critical aspect of a library (which often affects the interfaces as well as the implementations). Yes, it is harder to write portable thread safe libraries in a language that does not natively support threads, no doubt about it. But to say that this is not a library issue is rather remarkable. Unfortunately FAR too many people agree with you and an amazing amount of thread-unsafe code has been produced in the past. Note incidentally that the lack of nested procedures is a nasty problem for thread safety, since it means that one has to pass parameters everywhere or use globals. Globals are of course a danger spot for thread safety! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own