Re: ArsDigita working practices (was: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- )

[Michael Stevens]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:06:52PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +0000, Kieran Barry wrote:
> > > TCL is used because its multithreaded. Perl 6 is going to be
> > > multithreaded. It should be able to wipe TCL out.
> > I've never actually understood the appeal of threads. Why do
> > people like them?
> Thats a trick question right ?

Ok, it's trolling a bit, but their main use seems to be where
you don't want to bother to do proper nonblocking IO...

Michael