On Apr 27, 6:59 pm, Scott Moore <sam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ivan Levashew wrote:
> > That's why I prefer Ada: familiar syntax, modern features, respected
> > standard, free software crossplatform implementation.
>
> Without turning this into a conversation on Ada, that language is
> getting more attention nowadays as a multicore language. Basically,
> there is no way that a highly threaded/multicore application is going
> to be reasonably created with an insecure language. You can add
> monitors to C/C++, but its meaningless because none of the
> restrictions on access that monitors give are enforceable. Just go
> look at all the threads on "man, my pthreads application crashes",
> etc.
>
> Scott Moore
IMHO Ada is an excellent option. And thank you for the discussion.
I just wanted to give credit to the Apple Mac for nurturing Pascal.
And also point out the extraordinary progress made in this era.
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