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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??
Date: 5 Aug 2005 18:15:05 -0500
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In article <877jf02ud1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I am not aware of any Ada implementation which integrates I/O
> multiplexing with tasks. Therefore, it seems to me that Ada's tasking
> is a completely useless burden when developing concurrent applications
> on mainstream operating systems.  Usually, you have to figure out how
> to work around it realiably, so that the run-time library continues to
> work.

The DEC Ada package Tasking_Services provides a model for those
who want to avoid setting up their own AST entries for calling
$QIO and similar services.