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- From: klamer@mi.el.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
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- References: <Bz2nDF.7B6@fiu.edu> <1992Dec12.145403.26483@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Dec14.190553.14838@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> <1992Dec17.192301.23525@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:51:53 GMT
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- In <1992Dec17.192301.23525@ucc.su.OZ.AU> maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
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- : Next, I feel NO language has addressed the concept
- :of coroutines (except possibly Simula?). C provides
- :no simple exchange of control mechanism, although one
- :has to admit they can be emulated using objects in C++.
- :Yet many machines provide this facility, usually via
- :some exchange and link instruction.
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- Occam has the parallel execution option, which can quite easily be used
- for coroutine-style programming. Its task switching method also maps
- quite well to hardware (to the hardware it was designed for: a transputer).
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- This makes Occam a good candidate language for problems which need
- coroutine style programming. (Lucky me, my problems don't need coroutines :-)
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- Klamer
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