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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada advocacy
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:22:38 -0400
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Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Do you mean conditional critical regions?
>
> They did have barriers, but Brinch Hansen and Hoare differed as to whether
> they should be anchored at the start, e.g.:

I don't remember the details.  Barriers in Ada are tied to the entry,
as opposed to being separate from the "monitor".  And I seem to recall
some by-hand management of queues in Concurrent Pascal that is done
automatically in Ada.  But my memory of Concurrent Pascal is hazy!

- Bob