* Re: Ada rendezvous
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@ 1990-03-03 5:17 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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From: William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 @ 1990-03-03 5:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
From article <SZ-1HYDxds13@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> If you want to talk about blatantly unsafe constructs, how about ADA's use of
> rendezvous as the primary (maybe only) message passing construct? The MINIX
> operating system is written in C, but the biggest source of subtle bugs in the
% system (from my observation of the discussions in comp.lang.minix) is the use
% of rendezvous. I understand that the DoD has given up on using ADA's tasking
% and switched to a hosted environment on top of VRTX partly because of this.
I seriously doubt that the reasoning had anything to do with not
liking the rendezvous; it probably had to do instead with requiring
a greater degree of control over task scheduling.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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