From: Arnaud Spiwack <Arnaud.Spiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The closing gap (warning: long, inflammatory rant)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:06:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480D01E4.5060207@lix.polytechnique.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421204721.GA11434@annexia.org>
> Thanks for the straw man argument there. Garbage collectors and _not_
> using threads both improve the safety of the language.
>
This might depend on what kind of thread interface you are provided
with. Of course it's never easy to work with non-determinism, but if I
take jocaml for instance, which gives you a process (in the sense of
pi-calculus) interface to threads, and it makes it probably rather safe
actually, possibly stronger safety when dealing with multiple processes
(or UI threads possibly) than doing things with low-level primitves like
fork and such.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-21 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 12:27 Berke Durak
2008-04-21 13:11 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-21 13:29 ` Berke Durak
2008-04-21 14:44 ` Jon Harrop
2008-04-21 20:47 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-21 21:06 ` Arnaud Spiwack [this message]
2008-04-21 21:16 ` Berke Durak
2008-04-21 23:06 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-17 22:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-04-21 16:26 ` Elliott Oti
2008-04-21 20:48 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-21 21:06 ` Jon Harrop
2008-04-21 14:59 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-04-21 15:57 ` Berke Durak
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