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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,198c6302c4a0b0d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-20 15:05:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:36:28 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9vtp5f$n55$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1008887791 23717 136.170.200.133 (20 Dec 2001 22:36:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2001 22:36:31 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18181 Date: 2001-12-20T22:36:31+00:00 List-Id: True. Its easier to implement containers than it is to implement multitasking. But in most kinds of development, tasking is a rarity, but lists & maps are not. When you need tasks, you *really* need them. But I'd bet that most programmers go through the bulk of their professional careers and never write a multitasking app... MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ wrote in message news:KDtU7.15328$NM4.3204983@rwcrnsc53... > > You'd be hard-pressed to prove that concurrency is more important to the > > average developer than containers. > I'd a whole lot rather have to roll my own container than multi-tasking > system. And in "average developer" do you include VB programmers, or > are you thinking of embedded/real time programmers?