Re: List Container Straw Man

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > Um, it is not wise to challenge a rocket scientist on this point! How
> > many satellites have you launched recently? When was the last time you
> > had to write code that met a 0.01 millisecond time stamp accuracy
> > requirement, and did it continuously for a week straight? There is no
> > place for abstract containers in this code; I need to control
> > _everything_!
> 
> On the other hand, it *is* a "newbie" library. I want to know where an
> Ada newbie can get a job writing real-time code to run satellites. :-)
> Everything I've seen has required five years or more of embedded
> programming experience.

Good point. Sorry for the flames :).

> Seriously, I think the complications of storage pools, real-time,
> etc etc might be too much to put into a simple language. By the time
> you're writing your own storage pools, having three instantiations
> to get to your desired data type probably isn't a problem, right?

Yes, I was forgetting the newbie aspect. But "real-time" is not
something that can be added later; it would be helpful to at least
mention that aspect in this package.

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-- Stephe