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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> <89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <13t6gke30kp56f0@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: <13t6gke30kp56f0@corp.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1205032664 12.201.97.213 (Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:17:44 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:17:44 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:17:44 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20247 Date: 2008-03-09T03:17:44+00:00 List-Id: Phaedrus wrote: > > Ada hasn't "missed" the "multicore revolution". Quite the opposite, Ada has > had multitasking built-in since the mid 80's and it works just fine on > multicore platforms. (I know, I've been there, done that.) Perhaps someday > one of those C variants you seem to prefer will have the same kind of > advanced features. Ada has had tasking since 1980 (Ada 80, MIL-STD 1815). It was significantly revised for Ada 83. -- Jeff Carter "No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle, do you understand? Even--and I want to make this absolutely clear--even if they do say, 'Jehovah.'" Monty Python's Life of Brian 74