Re: About studying Ada's implementation on its concurrent programming features.

[Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>]

Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net> writes:
> If I were to pick up a single comprehensive book on concurrency in Ada,
> it would be "Concurrency in Ada" by Burns and Welling.  A very good
> description of the model and its use.  The only unfortunate part, is
> that the new edition that covers Ada '05 is still pending publication,
> though it can be preordered at Amazon under the title "Concurrent and
> Real-Time Programming in Ada".  I expect that many of the weak points of
> Ada 95 that the authors identified will be addressed in this new version
> of the book due to changes in the language.

I second this. It is especially good at explaining concurrency pitfalls with
specific Ada issues, in particular how Ada's concurrency features tend to
encourage "busy waiting" loops, and how to avoid that.

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