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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:04:40 +0200
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* Erlo Haugen:

> http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
>
> I think so.

This is hardly new, people have been writing concurrent programs for
decades, at least on the server side.

I also fail to see Ada's advantages because Ada tasking tends to match
poorly to concurrency models supported by operating systems.  For
example, how can you add a select alternative which waits for activity
on a specific file descriptor, without introducing many pointless
context switches?