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: a07f3367d7,4215feeab2a8154a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!fdn.fr!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: John McCabe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++0x and Threads - a poor relation to Ada's tasking model? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:33 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <7q2385104kihs87d79p8kfphuoki6r01vq@4ax.com> <7961a91c-a5af-40e2-bbc0-6bf69a98176d@z31g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <362f621e-a01c-4772-ba02-4e18e9962188@j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: RXEkuaSUwmKe0XIGFYSK7A.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dMTQrVPko5TWrnfnwSt6uRZo6ew= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7702 Date: 2009-08-12T17:59:33+01:00 List-Id: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:56:34 -0700 (PDT), REH wrote: >> It seems to me that Ada's model started off with a clean slate and was >> designed from the ground up whereas with C++ it's always been a case >> of "how can we bolt this on". That's primarily what I was getting at. >If the Ada model suits your needs, use it. Why should C++ be >identical? It serves a different community. In what way?