On Thursday, 1 September 2016 07:12:59 UTC-4, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:58 PM, adonovan via golang-nuts > <golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > [the POSIX 'select' system call] was the inspiration for the Go > > select statement, but whereas Go's select multiplexes channels, > > POSIX's select multiplexes files. > > I can't claim any authority over this, but believe it is wrong. The > control structure appeared in Tony Hoare's communicating sequential > processes [...]
You're absolutely right. I meant merely that the name "select" comes from UNIX. Now I wonder if the authors of Berkeley UNIX were inspired by CSP... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
