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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada advocacy
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:08:02 +0100
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On 27/08/2013 14:34, in article op.w2g9br0kule2fv@cardamome, "Yannick
Duchêne   (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Le Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:15:07 +0200, Robert A Duff
> <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a écrit:
> 
>> Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On Jun 18, 3:28 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>         Ada was basically the first LANGUAGE that defined
>>>> multi-tasking IN THE
>>>> LANGUAGE itself. Before it, one had to use OS specific system calls to
>>>> create tasks -- if such a call was even available, in contrast to
>>>> creating
>>>> processes at the command line level.
>>>> 
>>> The second. Algol68 did.

Just for histrical accuracy, I'll note that PL/I included language-defined
tasking in 1964. 

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