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: 103376,6deb3e1ddefb099 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.195.131 with SMTP id ie3mr16787546pbc.8.1337404069317; Fri, 18 May 2012 22:07:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: pr3ni3777pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed.tele2net.at!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3bee6ced-fd28-41b3-af91-5ff3711dbcca@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: Lf0Nl3CcQzx+ocHx9cmuGg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Date: 2012-05-19T05:07:46+00:00 List-Id: > Indeed; I find it slightly amusing that Ada's had tasking for 30 years and = > the C-type folks are bending over backwards trying to find not only "a way"= > to do it, but also "the right way." I recently went to a local chapter ACM meeting with a speaker on "Threads and Shared Variables in C++11". Lots of examples of potential problems with shared variables and the main take-away seemed to be to be careful to use semaphores carefully. Sad.