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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 21, 2:41=A0pm, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> There's plenty that's modern about Ada - it did multi-core natively
> and portably long before the current flavour-of-the-month boys came to
> the party.

I'll also add to the list of 'modern' features...full OO-support for
tasks (i.e. lightweight threads) - I don't know of any other language
that can say that.

Cheers
-- Martin