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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: C versus Ada (once again :-)), was: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
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* Simon Clubley:

> As I keep saying in one way or another:
>
> 	Ada: nice language, lousy compiler situation.

If you are trying to parallelize your programs for performance
reasons, Ada (as standardized) is not such a nice language anymore
because it lacks a modern memory model (which reflects the variations
of existing hardware) and access to various forms of atomic
instructions with well-defined properties.