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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5a05d88755a62a0e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Asynchronous Transfer of Control Date: 1996/10/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191332127 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <32656457.1A76@csehp1.mdc.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1996Oct21.180838.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > > > In fact, the ruling of the AVO, after much discussion, was precisely that > > this test (the one requiring 31 priority levels) could indeed be ruled > > inapplicable for TSP, so they can claim quite rightly that their validation > > includes validation for the real time annex as well as the core. > > If the decision had been otherwise, it seems to me the validation > process would have become a matter of rating operating systems > rather than compilers. That does not serve the needs of those > who have already chosen an operating system and now must choose > a compiler for it. There are few ways to discourage a would be > Ada project so effective as saying "Well, _real_ Ada cannot be > done on the operating system you have chosen." CPM and RSTS > advocates should get that brush-off, but not Windows NT fans. > The world cares a lot more about Windows NT than Ada (this month). Absolutely. Good thing this insanity was nipped in the bud. I think Robert put it best when he said that if this had not been approved and no compiler could have validated D on Win/NT, then the response would have been, "Gee, I thought I could use real Ada on NT for real-time - guess not. Well, I'm not changing from NT (that's fer sure), so it looks like I just won't be using Ada". Given the "not validated => use C++" insanity/stupidity/excuse, this seems pretty obvious... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com