Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 08:58:35 -0800 (PST)
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To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Miguel_Angel_P=E9rez_Estrada.=22?="  <mpereze AT lasalle DOT edu DOT co>,
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From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: help!
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At 02:09  3/7/1998 +0000, Miguel Angel Pérez Estrada. wrote:
>Probably this is  a not indicate medium to ask what i have to ask..
>sorry..
>its this.:
>i want to make a computer controlled system.. with real time monitoring
>of events.. to do that i have to make a choice of some languaje.. i have
>read that Ada has powerful capabilities for real time working.. It is
>better using it in turn of C++, Fortran or Pascal?.. It is better using
>Windows in turn of MSDOS?

This is all sort of random guesswork and hearsay, but from what I have
heard, Ada does not in general have a good reputation. It's supposed to be
an extremely overcomplicated language whose use should be avoided when
possible. But I have never used Ada, so this is all secondhand.

DOS is probably preferable to Windows for a real-time application, since the
concepts "real-time" and "multitasking" do not mix.


Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net