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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,da61fc2237bf773d X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unifying task & Distributed Annex References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <8EQZl.147959$DP1.130513@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.16.158.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1245173380 173.16.158.68 (Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:29:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:29:40 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:29:40 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6493 Date: 2009-06-16T17:29:40+00:00 List-Id: mamboking wrote: > One of the things I really like about Erlang is that whether you're > dealing with local tasks or distributed ones, the syntax is basically > the same. I think unifying Tasks & the Distributed Annex would be > great. I would like to see everything just go the way of Tasks, local > and distributed. Maybe the distributed Tasks could be limited to only > using rendezvous. That way you could avoid having to deal with shared > state. > > Just a thought. Anyone else have any ideas about this? Well, sure. In 1994. I thought the way to address distribution would be to have a way to assign tasks to the different machines, with appropriate restrictions. I also thought that formalizing the concept of passive tasks present in several Ada-83 compilers would be better than inventing a new construct with a new reserved word and hard-to-enforce restrictions. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 18