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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.180.106.197 with SMTP id gw5mr3604022wib.1.1372948301837; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!mf3no935304wib.1!news-out.google.com!b5ni40001wiz.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.86.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:31:40 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <8nu4jb5aibjw.sytrhqoe2nuu$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <2b87840a-74a5-4cd7-a32e-7fb18d9cc46b@googlegroups.com> <7bb7562a-dc5f-4292-9502-e4dd0f686c64@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: IenaDxMXK2hi7fvYcb+MlQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-13" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Bytes: 2072 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182274 Date: 2013-07-04T16:31:40+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 07:22:52 -0700 (PDT), john@peppermind.com wrote: >> tasking is more complicated than in other languages because >> >>> it is properly defined and not just wrapped around OS threads. >> >> I second all this, but the last argument is odd. Something well-defined is >> more > complicated than something not so well-defined? > > Isn't that often the case? I didn't want to imply that there is anything > wrong with Ada tasking. To paraphrase Einstein: "Everything should be made > as simple as possible, but no simpler.¡ This discussion reads strange to me. How can anybody seriously claim that beginthread, fork, CreateMutex, WaitForSingleObject, compartments etc stuff is simpler than Ada's tasking. Is it a joke? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de