Re: async i/o (was Re: This week's summary)
At 11:02 PM +0100 7/3/03, Tim Bunce wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:10:23PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > "AB" == Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> Dan Sugalski wrote: >> The more I think about this the more I want to punt on the whole >> idea. Cross-platform async IO is just one big swamp. AB> Agreed. Glug, glug, glug ;-) who here will be at oscon (or yapc::eu)? i would like to get a small BOF going on this subject. i agree it is a morass but i have some ideas and i know dan has plenty. but we had better learn to swim these swamps and not get eaten by the gators. we can drain them, convert them to dry deserts and make them safe for camel caravans. :) Has any other language learnt to swim well in these swamps? Cross-platform? Not that I know of. On single platforms, sure. That's easy. Well, relatively easy, at least. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
Re: async i/o (was Re: This week's summary)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:10:23PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "AB" == Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AB> Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> The more I think about this the more I want to punt on the whole > >> idea. Cross-platform async IO is just one big swamp. > > AB> Agreed. Glug, glug, glug ;-) > > who here will be at oscon (or yapc::eu)? i would like to get a small BOF > going on this subject. i agree it is a morass but i have some ideas and > i know dan has plenty. but we had better learn to swim these swamps and > not get eaten by the gators. we can drain them, convert them to dry > deserts and make them safe for camel caravans. :) Has any other language learnt to swim well in these swamps? Tim.
Re: async i/o (was Re: This week's summary)
Uri Guttman wrote: who here will be at oscon (or yapc::eu)? i would like to get a small BOF going on this subject. i agree it is a morass but i have some ideas and i know dan has plenty. but we had better learn to swim these swamps and not get eaten by the gators. we can drain them, convert them to dry deserts and make them safe for camel caravans. :) I'll be at yapc::eu -- Alan Burlison --
async i/o (was Re: This week's summary)
> "AB" == Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> Dan Sugalski wrote: >> The more I think about this the more I want to punt on the whole >> idea. Cross-platform async IO is just one big swamp. AB> Agreed. Glug, glug, glug ;-) who here will be at oscon (or yapc::eu)? i would like to get a small BOF going on this subject. i agree it is a morass but i have some ideas and i know dan has plenty. but we had better learn to swim these swamps and not get eaten by the gators. we can drain them, convert them to dry deserts and make them safe for camel caravans. :) thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs http://jobs.perl.org
