Re: Concurrency (was: RE: Re[2]: important news: refocusing discussion)

2006-03-29 Thread John Meacham
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:36:55PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: But before we get carried away figuring out all the pros and cons of various options, let me point out once again that This is just a marketing decision Because (a) we're going to standardise concurrency anyway

Re: Concurrency (was: RE: Re[2]: important news: refocusing discussion)

2006-03-28 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (a) we're going to standardise concurrency anyway Well, but that only begs the question, what *kind* of concurrency are we going to standardise on? e.g. Will we admit all variations of scheduling (co-operative, time-slice, and pre-emptive)? (b) it is

Concurrency (was: RE: Re[2]: important news: refocusing discussion)

2006-03-27 Thread Simon Marlow
On 26 March 2006 02:31, isaac jones wrote: Possible Interests: 1. I can write tools like filesystems, web servers, and GUIs in Haskell' 2. Libraries that I use are thread-safe 3. I can compile my code with any Haskell' compiler 4. Tools such as debuggers and tracers that claim to