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A comparative study of task communication in ada
Author(s) -
Welsh Jim,
Lister Andrew
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380110305
Subject(s) - computer science , task (project management) , determinism , process (computing) , similarity (geometry) , communicating sequential processes , programming language , artificial intelligence , epistemology , engineering , semantics (computer science) , systems engineering , philosophy , operational semantics , image (mathematics)
A previous paper compared the mechanisms for process communication in Hoare's communicating sequential processes and in Brinch Hansen's distributed processes, by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. This paper extends these analyses to the corresponding features for communication between tasks in Ada. The similarity between Ada's features and Hoare's proposals is confirmed, but some limitations on non‐determinism in Ada are noted.