From: Robert Fischer <robert.fischer@SmokejumperIT.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve.
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:54:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46549BD9.3090505@SmokejumperIT.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4654975F.5060108@janestcapital.com>
Granted, although I haven't played with Haskell+STM: the point I was
trying to make was that we need to be denoting parallelism instead of
implementing it. To that end, functional languages are better for that
kind of work (due to their disdain of side effects, if nothing else).
Robert Fischer
IT Firefighter
Smokejumper Consulting
Brian Hurt wrote:
> Robert C Fischer wrote:
>
>> ...and locks and threads are not a viable long-term solution to the
>> problem of concurrency in general. You're future-proofing enough by
>> teaching them functional languages: Erlang and Cilk are closer to the
>> needed future.
>>
> I think you mean "Haskell+STM" instead of Cilk. Cilk isn't a
> particularly functional language (being effectively C plus a little bit).
>
> Brian
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 22:10 David Teller
2007-05-22 22:22 ` [Caml-list] " William D. Neumann
2007-05-23 13:07 ` David Teller
2007-05-22 22:26 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-22 23:16 ` skaller
2007-05-23 2:46 ` David Thomas
2007-05-23 9:19 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-23 12:49 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 13:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-05-23 14:06 ` skaller
2007-05-23 14:54 ` Florian Hars
2007-05-23 15:11 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 21:48 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-24 8:04 ` Markus E.L.
2007-05-24 8:32 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-24 9:51 ` skaller
2007-05-24 11:22 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-23 13:55 ` David Teller
2007-05-22 23:19 ` skaller
2007-05-23 10:41 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-23 13:04 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 13:51 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-24 14:00 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-24 14:00 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 14:20 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-24 14:34 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 14:21 ` skaller
2007-05-22 23:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 18:54 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-23 19:27 ` Robert C Fischer
2007-05-23 19:34 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 19:54 ` Robert Fischer [this message]
2007-05-23 21:46 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 22:14 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-05-24 1:38 ` Revolution Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 2:40 ` [Caml-list] Revolution skaller
2007-05-24 3:21 ` Chris King
2007-05-24 14:24 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 13:40 ` [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 19:29 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 20:20 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 14:18 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 14:23 ` skaller
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