Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Tasking does tend to suffer in that regard. A good text that not only 
had step-by-step introduction of tasking but a bunch of practical 
examples of when to use it (and when not to) would be a good thing. 
There are web pages that would publish it if it was reasonably well done.

MDC

James Alan Farrell wrote:

> I think the biggest reason for things like this is lack of really good 
> books that do a good job of explaining Ada tasking.  We have five or six 
> different books lying around the office with names like "Object Oriented 
>  Programming in Ada" (which gives a good overview of the basic features 
> of Ada, with a few notes on object oriented programming added as an 
> after thought), "Ada as a second language", etc.  None do a good job of 
> covering advanced features of Ada, such as tasking, or Ada's object 
> oriented programming.
> 
> JAF

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