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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:50:08 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <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> <1d3612ad-f85a-489c-b4bc-0c23d5d67de3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0gipH8doFnFjPXlWycyiNg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20605 Date: 2014-06-26T04:50:08+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:52:33 +0200, Maciej Sobczak = a =C3=A9crit: >> Programming a state machine is >> turning all design upside down. > > Or not, depending on how the connection (and its state) is perceived i= n = > the whole system. Rather depends on the side you are on. You can write a readable routine'= s = algorithm from the side of the routine, then have to rewrite it = upside=E2=80=91down to be able to integrate it, due to the lack of corou= tines, and = then it's not readable any=E2=80=91more. When I was using C, I used to implement per=E2=80=91coroutine stack (wit= h limit = check!, cheese) and stack=E2=80=91switching for that purpose, but you ca= n't do it = with Ada, as it does not allow this kind of low level hacking. -- = =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