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Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:43:04 +0200
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Le Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:42:23 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:18:11 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>
>> I am currently working on an Ada project with a null run-time and a
>> proprietary small multi-threading kernel.
>
> Wouldn't it be helpful to have user-defined tasking for such cases?  =

> Because
> there is another important case for this - co-routines. When implement=
ing
> stuff like network communication (e.g. HTTP servers) and parallel
> processing we frequently have a set of state machines (one per  =

> connection)
> too expensive to handle from OS tasks. Programming a state machine is
> turning all design upside down. If there were user-defined task suppor=
t  =

> one
> could program this as if it were in proper tasks.

That's what I expected to come with Ada 2012, but it was not there.


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=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.=
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[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
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