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Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> He claimed that I did not write any multithreading C or C++ program,
> presumably because the C and C++ standards say nothing about threads.
> For me this kind of argument is just a handwaving and to show this I
> replied with the same logic that nobody did <put-your-pet-application-
> here> in Ada, for the simple reason that AARM says nothing about it.

Balzac!

You claimed you wrote multithreaded SW in C; I said that you wrote it in C plus 
a threading library that you did not write, which is not writing it in C. I 
never said anything about the standards. So your reply *obviously* claimed that 
no one has written the kinds of SW you mentioned in Ada without a library that 
one did not write. Numerous responses have proven that to be untrue.

It's possible to write all of multithreaded SW in C, including the threading; 
that would qualify as writing such SW in C. It would also be a complete waste of 
time, but those who use C by choice have already demonstrated that they want to 
waste their time.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and
walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass."
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