From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:35:06 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <8cee7204b91c9558c86347e572df6ad5@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60909021127m7c22b518hf2255495dce5ee30@mail.gmail.com> References: <5db2df69e768a7259b8a1e698abddd3f@coraid.com> <32125c2033c0f63e5bb24548c7bc934f@hamnavoe.com> <3e1162e60909021127m7c22b518hf2255495dce5ee30@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f94a97a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > > on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one > > > cannot do CSP without pure functional > > > programming. > > > > (p ⇒ q) ⇏ (¬p ⇒ ¬q) > > > > > That's interesting because pure functional programming doesn't exist at all > in the strictest sense on a computer. One MUST be able to cause side > effects during computation or your CPU will just get hot... if even that. i read the slides as contrasts, not as logical conjunctions. i still don't understand the claim that message passing requires "thousands of message protocols" and can't do syncronization. - erik