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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:07:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0807281407w52ea857bi41a3162944c49878@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00DD07FB-28AD-4C84-B497-728EF9C25EA3@mac.com>

Don Knuth:
> I'm unable to judge what ideas about parallelism are likely to
> be useful five or ten years from now, let alone fifty, so I happily
> leave such questions to others who are wiser than I.

Pietro:
> By that time, ...
> If only I could tell him that without having to wait for the snail!

I can't think of anything nice to say.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 17:11 andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-28 17:50 ` tlaronde
2008-07-28 19:52   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-28 21:07     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-07-28 21:33       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-29 18:40   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-29 19:12     ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-30 11:35       ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 11:50         ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 13:50           ` Paweł Lasek
2008-07-30 17:42           ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:07           ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:17           ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 11:58         ` Robert Raschke
2008-07-30 13:53         ` David Leimbach
2008-07-30 14:00         ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 15:35           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 16:53           ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-30 12:50 erik quanstrom
     [not found] <9b1933b61c606e89a4cbbc93a4b5a204@quanstro.net>
2008-07-30 17:31 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:58   ` Sape Mullender
2008-07-30 20:04     ` tlaronde
2008-08-05 10:34 Richard Maxwell Underwood
2008-08-05 15:28 ` Eris Discordia

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