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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9bbfb8cd49f1a51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:01:55 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada?? References: <877jf02ud1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:01:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.143.98 X-Trace: sv3-xbwmYTa/WHMolrkKTeNti47f1wsS3EFp21nLUWH48+rNt2bNXLj2tppDDN2LZh2fFUtlYSNJwBzhCTh!tJBn1A0lbB7xJJnHH9haTiEMY0944ltr+EIlLd6kEs1bl09L63AunKEvIKNozDRj5dsJA1zI/EbB!AZUlJSbMlXkbOwOIypF+y+iGqqI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3993 Date: 2005-08-05T23:01:55-05:00 List-Id: > I am not aware of any Ada implementation which integrates I/O > multiplexing with tasks. Therefore, it seems to me that Ada's tasking > is a completely useless burden when developing concurrent applications > on mainstream operating systems. Usually, you have to figure out how > to work around it realiably, so that the run-time library continues to > work. There's an OS called Windows which, while you may not like it, cannot be called non-mainstream. It's mostly based on polling, which works just fine with tasks. Claw has been working fine that way for nearly a decade now.