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In that case you probably said "get me a bowl of chili if you can get served in a minute, otherwise don't bother". Or at least it was implicit.
by sambe 16y ago
In that case you probably said "get me a bowl of chili if you can get served in a minute, otherwise don't bother". Or at least it was implicit.
- regularfry 16y agoThe problem is that combining this with multithreading makes for a combinatorial explosion of possible states that you might have to deal with. It's just not feasible to exhaustively specify everything., and leaving things implicit means that you're expecting the computer to do things you haven't told it to do.
- sambe 16y agoSure, there is complexity. It's easy to make assumptions or forget real-world details too. But you DID tell it to time-out, because that's how the I/O library is specified.
- regularfry 16y agoThe more pernicious problem is when they don't come back at all, having deadlocked.