On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:11:26PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > It really is a cool language; the only one I know of with a really > usable concurrency model. (C/C++ have no concurrency model; Java's > requires programmers to stick the "synchronized" keyword in all the > right places; Haskell's use of lazy evaluation to model coroutines is > cute, but not at all the same thing, just as their two-line qsort demo > isn't really a qsort if you look at it closely; etc.)
Ada "tasks" provide concurrency. I'm not enough of a language expert to discuss the merits, but folks seem to use them... And that "quicksort" looked kinda like a merge sort to me ;-) -- "...the plural of anecdote is [not?] data." - attrib. to George Stigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
