Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:56:01 -0500, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 2/11/2010 4:05 PM, retard wrote: >> C on the other hand fails on high >> level user interface and business logic programming and on trivial >> multithreaded systems. > > Actually, given a decent implementation of the CSP thread model, > multithreading in C is easy even for trivial problems. Plan 9 uses that > model heavily, and I was encouraged to hear that D2’s concurrency model > will have CSP influences.
Agreed, some models are easier to comprehend. I really liked C.A.R. Hoare's book about CSP. It's standing right next to my copy of SICP :) Maybe I'm just getting blinded by high level languages - when you want a clean, pure process system, my implementation language of choice wouldn't be C.
