On Mon, April 2, 2007 8:18 pm, Darren New wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> If the really smart guys can't seem to crack the nut, what chance do us >> mortals have? > > I think the problem is less that the smart guys don't know what to do > and more getting the mediocre guys to abandon the old ways of doing it.
That would be me. > There are a number of languages that get this "right", but they're > incompatible with the vast libraries of software already out there, so > few people use them. And concurrency hasn't become enough of a keystone > need that you can get the whole world to switch to a for-now-inferior > environment, like was done with (say) relational databases. <cough> some of us are still skeptical that relational databases are all that much superior. > > I suspect when programs start hitting the limits of a single processor > like they're now starting to hit the limits of a 32-bit address space, > you'll start seeing the highly-parallel languages start getting much > more popular in the mainstream. > <sigh> I can't argue with that. I miss CP/M. You knew where you were in CP/M. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
