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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Required Metrics
Date: 2000/05/08
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In article <umqzoq1h3u6.fsf@gong2.clustra.com>,
  Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com> wrote:
> Or use another language, since the need for implementing it
> yourself really removes much of the reason for using Ada in
> the first place.

No, that's MUCH too strong. It is still the case that many uses
of Ada simply avoid tasking completely. One case is safety
critical programming which wants to avoid the complexities
of tasking semantics. Another case is where the Ada programmer
*prefers* to use the underlying thread capabilities of the
system directly. There is nothing wrong with this.

Furthermore, there primary advantages of Ada to most users do
not stem from performance of rendez-vous, but rather many other
features.

Of course people might switch to other languages for many
reasons but the "much" in your sentence above does not hold
water.

In any case, I think we agree that the RM is not the issue here
:-)


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