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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2003 21:39:54 +0200
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> ... But all the published programs that people see use pthreads,
> which is an anti-unix design.

pthreads?  yeah, i wrote some of that once -- ghastly.  all those
extra characters to type and if you get it wrong, well your code
breaks.

i think rob said once that:

    concurrent [thread] programming is beyond the capabilities of
    most programmers.

i tend to agree.  look what they did to ls(1) on lunix ...