From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Timeouts in Ada Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:39:41 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <50bdb713-7ce1-411b-810b-9bdee1d26b7a@googlegroups.com> <_Sizv.37414$ic5.15869@fx21.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="9553"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NxMnLIlFtbfP8PJy1ejj8" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <_Sizv.37414$ic5.15869@fx21.iad> Cancel-Lock: sha1:2PiW1xKOTHCP4WPcgWqc21YPXUY= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21137 Date: 2014-07-22T09:39:41+02:00 List-Id: Le 22/07/2014 03:11, Shark8 a écrit : > When you have advice like that it kinda indicates a mistake. > Would you call ATC a mistake? (I've never used it, so I can't REALLY say > -- though it seems that perhaps an entirely different structure [rather > than overloading SELECT] may've helped.) Randy said it was impossible to use /portably/. Although portability is one of the primary goals of Ada, sometimes you have to sacrifice it for some other goals - like having the job done, efficiency concerns, etc. ATC is here because a number of guys from the real-time community called for it. And it's certainly usable for bare-metal embedded targets. I would say that if you are programming a bare-metal embedded target, portability to Windows is not your first concern ;-) -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr