Re: Ada cost breakpoints

[dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)]

In <EMERY.93Mar24172443@dr_no.mitre.org> emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David
Emery) writes:

>The problem with this example is that it is clearly *VERY* dependent
>on Unix, and specifically BSD, semantics.  Consider what would happen
>if you tried to port this code to a non-BSD or non-Unix environment.  

This was presumably in response to my posting, in which I said,

     Some environments (BSD) make it easy to use small independent
     programs that efficiently invoke and communicate with one
     another.

     In these environments C and C++ will work very well -- just keep
     the pieces small.

But don't forget that I also said:

     Other environments may make it difficult to do the same.  In such
     environments Ada might be clearly better, though the controversy
     will continue to rage.  But why are you using such environments in
     the first place?

Note the final question.  It is not just rhetorical.  Anybody who
mandata Ada is probably also in a position to mandate BSD or an
equivalent environment.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
also:  dhesi@cirrus.com