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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:34:29 +0200
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Le Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:15:07 +0200, Robert A Duff  =

<bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a =C3=A9crit:

> Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jun 18, 3:28 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>         Ada was basically the first LANGUAGE that defined  =

>>> multi-tasking IN THE
>>> LANGUAGE itself. Before it, one had to use OS specific system calls =
to
>>> create tasks -- if such a call was even available, in contrast to  =

>>> creating
>>> processes at the command line level.
>>>
>> The second. Algol68 did.
>
> Others, too.  Per Brinch-Hansen's Concurrent Pascal, for example.  It
> has something-like Ada tasks (no rendezvous; no big loss), and
> something-like Ada protected objects (without barriers -- that's
> a big loss).
>
> But Dennis is mostly right -- in the olden days, concurrency was mostl=
y
> considered an OS issue.
>

Why did you said =E2=80=9Cno big loss=E2=80=9D about the rendez=E2=80=91=
vous? What's your known  =

issues with rendez=E2=80=91vous? I never used concurrency a lot until no=
w, so  =

that's really a question, because I may  (or may not, I still don't know=
)  =

have to use it.


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity