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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:17:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5ebe316d-cd84-40fb-a983-9f953f205fef@googlegroups.com> <2100734262424129975.133931laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <5156oy7vhg99.17wu6q2ef45ke.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="117da9042fa4d6f5956a9b8f72035635"; logging-data="24549"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19i8f3w4xF8OPQ9RGYOoXuPmTVC9FqU+ik=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zNz5sRcx0V/tLbat/H16MhtIFlw= sha1:AFGXimeZNIYfkAh8HUtOwWXbxqQ= X-Original-Bytes: 2200 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187192 Date: 2014-06-23T12:17:38+01:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > Programming a state machine is turning all design upside down. If > there were user-defined task support one could program this as if it > were in proper tasks. I find it easier to think about state machines as state machines rather than by encoding them using the program counter! I geuss it depends on your starting point.