E. Weddington said: > Colin Paul Gloster wrote: > >>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:53:52PM -0700, stevech wrote: >>"My Two Cents: Operating system functions like atomic access and >> mutual exclusion and multitasking do *not* belong in a programming >> language standard. The DoD tried it years ago with Ada and it was a >> huge failure."
I worked at one of the companies that used at Ada and I don't remember it being a huge failure. The reason it disappeared had nothing to do with its multitasking capability. Ada was also the basis for the hardware description language VHDL, which is still in wide-spread usage today. > As a side note to this interesting discussion: The Ada language compiler > will be coming soon to a WinAVR release. I'll have to dust off my old moldy books then... Mike _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
