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Date: 4 Oct 92 13:08:05 GMT
From: world!tne@decwrl.dec.com  (Thomas N Erickson)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility
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>To be fair Xlib is not suitable to mulitasking and most large Ada systems use
>tasking.  There is no good solution to this probelem yet.  There are kludgy
>workarounds however.  C++ will face this same problem if it ever gets tasking
>added to it.  Modula-3 is the only language I know of that has a good multitas
king
>X-Windows compatible solution.  By the way, we use Ada and an X-Windows kludge
>here so I'm not knocking Ada.


We at Alsys have just released a product call AdaXlib, which is an Ada
implementation of the X library, including support for multi-tasking. 
This should address much of the needs for Ada support for X-Windows.

Tom Erickson
Alsys
tne@world.std.com

(617)270-0030