Brian Mastenbrook wrote: > I guess my point is that concurrency goes beyond mutexes, conditions, > and thread creation. Those things are necessary to making concurrency > work. But making it work *right* is difficult in practice on one > platform. > >
Well, I it should be possible to start small and provide a consistent interface to "mutexes, conditions, and thread creation" across implementations (which I suppose clim does). It'll be broken, but at least it'll be consistent. Another route would be to standardize a higher level communication/synchronization interface and not sweat the low level stuff (a la Erlang), but that is more landscaping than gardening. Matt -- "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." — Albert Einstein. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
