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From: vladimir@prosper (Vladimir G. Ivanovic)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada tasking
Message-ID: <136227@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 25 May 90 16:23:45 GMT
References: <20075@grebyn.com>
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In-reply-to: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden)

In article <20075@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn (Ted Holden) writes:

>Tasking is naturally an operating system feature;  the idea of tasking
>as a part of a language is one of the dumber ideas since communism.

Here are a few reasons for making tasking a language feature:

(1) The compiler can be used to check the semantics of tasking as well as its
syntax. 

(2) The same model is used by all implementations.

(3) A tasking library is limited to a procedure call interface.  One can't have
the nicely readable syntax of Ada's tasking constructs.

Cheers,

-- Vladimir
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