Re: Unifying task & Distributed Annex

[tmoran@acm.org]

> I think unifying Tasks & the Distributed Annex would be great.

They are different things.  You could write a normal program and easily
change it to a distributed program without ever using the pragma
Asynchronous.  That would let different CPUs, with different disks
containing different data files, run different parts of your
single-tasking program.  Thus a database read-only server partition
would likely not have any asynchronous procedures.  Using asynchronous
procedures in a distributed system is a low-level approach to
multi-tasking, foregoing all the help of Ada "task" handling.
For instance, the effect of
  select
    Operator_Call("Put out the fire");
  or
    delay 60.0;
    Call_Fire_Brigade;
  end select;
would need to be explicitly programmed if Operator_Call was an
asynchronous procedure in a remote partition, instead of an entry
in a task.