Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-20 Thread Raoul Duke
These two are sufficient to convince many of the complexity of Concurrent programming. The way I try to convince people of the benefits of Clojure is by first explaining these 2 articles and then showing how easy life is with Clojure. please also see CTM.

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-19 Thread Gene Tani
On Jan 18, 5:48 pm, David Beckwith thirdreplica...@gmail.com wrote: And btw, thanks Erik, Gene, and Abhi for your suggestions!  I'll look at those. David :) A few others, while you're at it: - Chap 2 of Houser/Fogus' joy of Clojure MEAP, - the time, state, identity talks e.g.

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-19 Thread ajay gopalakrishnan
I think the strongest argument I ever found and which indicates the complexity involved with Concurrent programming are the following 2 articles: 1. The too much milk problemhttp://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1V4iBbCJCL0OTJkY2U5MDUtMGEzNS00NGExLThkZjItYjE3MmQ4NWJmNGJmhl=en This is taken from

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-18 Thread Gene Tani
On Jan 16, 4:02 pm, David Beckwith thirdreplica...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you guys recommend any good books, articles or code on concurrency?  I'm new to concurrency issues, and just finished the Halloway book, so it would be great to have an introductory reference with lots of examples

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Price
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:02 PM, David Beckwith thirdreplica...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you guys recommend any good books, articles or code on concurrency?  I'm new to concurrency issues, and just finished the Halloway book, so it would be great to have an introductory reference with lots

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Price
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:02 PM, David Beckwith thirdreplica...@gmail.com wrote: Can you guys recommend any good books, articles or code on concurrency?  I'm new to concurrency issues, and just finished the Halloway book, so it would be great to have an introductory reference with lots of

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-18 Thread David Beckwith
By the way, I made the suggestion to publish a concurrency specific book to Pragmatic Studios, and surprisingly Dave Thomas (of Ruby-world fame: http://pragprog.com/titles/rails2/agile-web-development-with-rails ) wrote back and agreed. He said that he's looking for an author. (See below.) So,

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-18 Thread David Beckwith
And btw, thanks Erik, Gene, and Abhi for your suggestions! I'll look at those. David :) On Jan 18, 6:14 am, Erik Price erikpr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:02 PM, David Beckwith thirdreplica...@gmail.com wrote: Can you guys recommend any good books, articles or code on

Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-17 Thread David Beckwith
Hi, Can you guys recommend any good books, articles or code on concurrency? I'm new to concurrency issues, and just finished the Halloway book, so it would be great to have an introductory reference with lots of examples of how to make your CPUs all work happily together. Bascally, I'd like to

Re: Good refs on concurrency?

2010-01-17 Thread abhi
 Bascally, I'd like to read a whole book about it relevant to Clojure.  (Or maybe relevant to Java.) I have heard Rich recommend 'Java concurrency in practice' in one of his talks. You could take a look at that. - Abhijith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google