Sutter & message passing

[Thomas Lindgren]

If you remember the very good article "The Free Lunch
is Over" by Herb Sutter, it may be interesting to hear
what MS (or at least Sutter) is up to:

http://pluralsight.com/blogs/hsutter/archive/2005/03/19/6804.aspx

"Iain McInnes wrote in a comment that he sees the
solution to concurrency as:
 
Don't share data between threads. Just don't
Easy to say: People didn't like giving up GOTO,
either.
What's the alternative ? Asynchronous message
exchange.
 
Bingo. That's the core lesson, and it's the
cornerstone of a design I've been working on since
late last year: Shared state is evil (for concurrency,
but also for so many other reasons including plain old
single-threaded coupling). Async messages are the way
to communicate."

Alas, he later goes on to say that functional
languages are "too different" :-)

"... we need something a lot smoother, cleaner, and
applicable to current imperative programming
languages. I and other people are actively working on
that."

Best,
Thomas



		
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