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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,198c6302c4a0b0d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-21 06:23:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!hub1.nntpserver.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:23:06 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:23:06 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18196 Date: 2001-12-21T14:23:06+00:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org says... > >> You'd be hard-pressed to prove that concurrency is more important to the >> average developer than containers. > I'd a whole lot rather have to roll my own container than multi-tasking >system. And in "average developer" do you include VB programmers, or >are you thinking of embedded/real time programmers? I'm thinking of anyone who would consider using a compiled systems programming language. For embedded/real time programmers, you have your best case for concurrency being more important, but you might still have an argument on your hands. After all, real-time apps have queues and lists all over the place too, and not every embedded app even has multiple threads. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.