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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: kcline@sun152.spd.dsccc.com's message of 5 Mar 1996 10:51:25
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- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:46:40 GMT
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- In article <4hhred$1rn@sun152.spd.dsccc.com> kcline@sun152.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) writes:
-
- > Perhaps the emergence of GNAT has changed all this, but it is going
- > to be hard for Ada to keep up. To use Ada in my work today, I would
- > require an API to CORBA, Tcl/Tk, and the Solaris real-time facilities
- > (itimers, etc.) and a runtime that efficiently mapped Ada tasks to
- > Solaris threads.
-
- Well, actually Gnat has changed this - and to a large extent this is
- due to its being Ada95. Further, why in the world do you continue
- to think that there is no OMG Ada/IDL mapping and implementation (there
- are two that I am aware of)??????? Check out OMG document 95-5-16. At
- the time it was delivered the ORB task force chair said it was the most
- complete and faithful mapping of IDL to yet be made (including C++).
-
- Gnat implements tasking directly on top of Solaris threads. I use it
- every day. It also will distribute them across processors on multi-cpu
- Solaris machines. And what makes you think that you can't get at the
- "real-time" facilities? If you can get at them with C, you can just
- as easily get at them with Ada95 (see Ada.Interfaces.C).
-
- If you don't want to use it or your management will have an aneurism or
- something if you do, fine. But why make up totally bogus - even
- ridiculous - reasons????? Get a clue, man!
-
- /Jon
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