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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:07:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180629150742.5d6cf508@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180629180109.GC10867@mcvoy.com>

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:01:09 -0700 Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> Well welcome to the old farts club, I'll cut you some slack :)
> I still think you are missing the point I was trying to make,
> it's amusing, a bit, that you are preaching what you are to me
> as a guy who moved Sun in that direction.  I'm not at all against
> your arguments, I was just making a different point.

I think we may be mostly talking past each other. To me, the
underlying question began at the start of this thread (see the
subject which we should have changed a long time ago): "is there any
benefit to new sorts of programming languages to deal with the modern
multiprocessor world".

I think we're now at the point where dealing with fleets of
processors is the norm, and on the languages side, I think Erlang was
a good early exemplar on that, and now that we have Rust I think the
answer is a definitive "yes". Go's CSP stuff is clearly also intended
to address this. Having language support so you don't have to handle
concurrent and parallel stuff all on your own is really nice.

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-29 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26 17:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 18:03 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-06-26 21:21   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 21:56   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-26 18:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 19:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:16   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 21:50     ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 21:54       ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:59         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 22:20           ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-26 22:33             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 23:53               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  8:30             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-26 22:33           ` Andy Kosela
2018-06-27  0:11             ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  6:10               ` arnold
2018-06-27  2:18           ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectTures Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-27  2:22             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:36             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-27 11:26         ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures Tony Finch
2018-06-27 14:33           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 14:38             ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 15:30             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-27 16:55               ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-27  6:27     ` arnold
2018-06-27 16:00 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-28  4:12   ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-28 14:15     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:40       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 14:55         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:58           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:39             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:02               ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 16:41                 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:59                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 17:09                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:32                     ` tfb
2018-06-29 16:09                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 17:51                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 18:27                         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-29 19:02                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 20:37                 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 15:37         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-28 20:37           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 14:43       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:56         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:07           ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 19:42           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 19:55             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:42             ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 21:03               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 22:29                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29  0:18                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:41                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 18:01                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 19:07                         ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-29  5:58                   ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-28 20:52             ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 21:07               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 16:45       ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:47         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 15:43         ` emanuel stiebler
2018-06-29  2:02       ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-29 12:58         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29 18:41           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  1:02 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-29  1:06 Noel Chiappa

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