It seems quite trivial - hardly deserving the 50 to 100 lines these
solutions seem to require.

I notice that some of the solutions change the problem - e.g. the Erlang
solution that employs "a waiter that only serves a plate of spaghetti when a
philosopher has access to two forks" - and none of them guarantee that a
philosopher won't starve, only that deadlock can be avoided.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Aai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just curious. Is a task like 'dining philosophers' possible/impossible
> in J? If impossible what should J have to solve this sort of tasks?
>
> -is e.g. J-OOP an option and then write some kind of scheduler and
> simulate the whole thing?
> -could J e.g. emulate this Pascal solution
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem#Example_Solution
>
> Anyone interested, check out :
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers
>
> TIA.
>
>
>
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