Re: AdaGames

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Some languages are providing class libraries that let you create "active
objects" which certainly helps with multitasking. I don't know of any other
languages that have tasking built in as direct syntactic features of the
language. (I might be wrong - but at least for the biggies like C++ & Java,
I believe this is the case.) While I admit I don't know much about the
active objects that may be supplied with C++ or Java, my understanding from
other people is that you still need to do some work to control the
communication & synchronization between the tasks.

In general, I think it would be easier to do a multi-tasking application in
Ada than in most other languages. Not that you *can't* do it in C or C++ or
Java - just that because of the direct language support, you get a leg-up on
it.

Now the "standard GUI" part is another story. AFAIK, C++ doesn't have a
"standard" GUI, but Java sort of does by virtue of its class libraries. Here
you might get an edge that buys back any loss for dealing with tasking.
That's a big reason to prefer another language over Ada - and one reason why
Ada ought to define some collection of libraries as a "standard". (Ada could
have an edge here - coming along second with a class library means you get
to learn what works well and what sucks about everyone else's libraries,
right?)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Well, not as easily done in other languages that lack tasking features.
> Many languages have tasking features built in, tho, as well as standard
> GUIs.
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