Comments on Replacing C

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > That's a separate issue.
> 
> Not so separate.  A good language makes threading easier, a bad language
> makes it hard or counterproductive.  Eric spends more time in languages
> with poor threading, thus a distaste for threading.

Until recently this was quite true.

I will note, hoever, that my distaste for threads has not prevented me
from using them well when I concluded nothing else would do.
cvs-fast-export has a little thread-pool scheduler in it that I'm
quite proud of, and irker's organization around a thread-locked queue
turned out to be both effective and pretty.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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