Pfft - I've seen way too many code bases with random threading code. Speaking of Java here - what's needed is that it's simply not possible to write new Thread

Pfft - I've seen way too many code bases with random threading code. Speaking of Java here - what's needed is that it's simply not possible to write new Thread(foo).start(); - the message passing model has to be enforced. I mean, read the Java documentation! What they say about threading is this: "Something slow? Just throw it in a background thread!". It's inane.