From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 07:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-02T07:50:20-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 3:09:20 AM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> Doing great things with small things makes programmers proud:
Granted.
>
> 1) People coming from C++ will be proud of having understood
> the new concurrency building blocks like std::atomic. Similarly
> for Java.
>
> 2) People coming from C are proud of having grasped
> "small things" like the meaning of "int", or the way CAS
> and semaphores will work. And of what *they* can do
> with these. And now its in the new C!
>
> 3) Small and speedy is way cooooool.
> So, ready-made simplicity of full Ada stinks. It is an insult
> to those who have mastered the above three notions. It hinders
> flexibility, you know.
Such people are fools. It is the same mentality that makes them think that they are better at catching range-errors [i.e. what we would use subtypes for] than the compiler.
See section 6 of the following paper: http://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/ICRST2013.pdf
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2013-06-14 15:39 Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA Max Herman
2013-06-14 17:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-17 15:51 ` Max Herman
2013-06-17 17:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-14 17:45 ` G.B.
2013-06-14 20:52 ` Simon Wright
2013-06-14 20:16 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2013-06-14 20:51 ` Simon Wright
2013-06-17 16:00 ` Max Herman
2013-06-17 0:38 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-06-17 16:05 ` Max Herman
2013-07-04 16:13 ` Lucretia
2013-06-17 6:55 ` Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for Ada Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-17 16:15 ` Max Herman
2013-06-26 23:58 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-06-17 21:46 ` Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA Marcus F
2013-07-01 18:45 ` mjsilva
2013-07-01 19:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-01 23:35 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 7:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-02 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 9:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-02 14:50 ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-07-02 15:08 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 16:53 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-02 22:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 0:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 19:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 19:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-08 12:53 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-07-03 21:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 22:02 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-04 16:02 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-05 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 1:01 ` mjsilva
2013-07-03 2:41 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-07-03 7:17 ` Shark8
2013-07-02 16:52 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 19:29 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 20:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 12:08 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-03 12:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 16:56 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 22:21 ` mjsilva
2013-07-03 7:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 8:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-03 11:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 12:49 ` G.B.
2013-07-03 16:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-03 14:50 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 10:44 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-02 13:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 13:59 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-02 14:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 16:45 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 16:57 ` Simon Clubley
2013-07-02 17:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 14:55 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 15:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 15:58 ` mjsilva
2013-07-02 16:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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