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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1eef1e815cf70416 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.238.65 with SMTP id vi1mr668561pbc.7.1339030536424; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni16908pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!81.171.88.250.MISMATCH!newsfeed.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BrianG Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Distributed Systems Annex, data sharing between programs Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:55:33 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8055acf5-188f-4b34-b4f0-83d70fee54f8@googlegroups.com> <96feb838-e0d3-4d06-abf0-79a8e74b5746@e20g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> <54af7ad7-7268-4d84-bafa-542e380a58f6@n16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5MNoRlpIAhOS/jy0qxZerw"; logging-data="4097"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ML/XydndOjQ9/LZuhMGdn" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/3.1.16 In-Reply-To: <54af7ad7-7268-4d84-bafa-542e380a58f6@n16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:fTUnsmlDt39IYtQFuv08wVIpel4= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-06-06T20:55:33-04:00 List-Id: On 06/06/2012 07:40 AM, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > On 6 Cze, 12:09, Niklas Holsti wrote: > >>> This is what makes single-language-distributed-systems solutions kind >>> of pointless. >> >> The fact that *some* distributed systems are multi-language does not >> mean that a single-language solution is pointless. Insufficient, perhaps. > > Single-language systems (A) are a subset of multi-language systems > (B). This means that if you need the B solution anyway (and you really > need it) and it solve problem A as well, then having a separate A > solution is pointless. > > You might still ask for it for performance reasons... You might also ask for it for other reasons, since there are other reasons behind Ada, such as maintainability. -- --- BrianG 000 @[Google's email domain] .com