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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] programming languages
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:58:40 +0200
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> Java's approach
> to concurrency is pathetically stuck in a 25-year-old time warp,
> and worse, they never untangled the clash between concurrency
> and object-orientation (unsurprisingly, because at least until
> recently
> it was still a research topic).

yeah, i saw a doc on java and they were interviewing the 'designers'
and one of them even admitted that java was never designed to do
what it is now used for.  that about says it all.