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Brilliant solution, terrible name. Took me a while to get it — child processes belong in nurseries. Bad abstraction, because the key here is processes. Lots of
by fijiaarone 4y ago
Brilliant solution, terrible name.
Took me a while to get it — child processes belong in nurseries. Bad abstraction, because the key here is processes. Lots of thing haves child nodes.
And what happens in nurseries? Growing? Maybe they were thinking watching — babysitting and it’s a cultural terminology difference.
But it would be just as silly to call a thread monitor/manager a babysitter as a nursery.
Like I said, it’s a great concept and a valuable abstraction, but I fear it will need a better name to take off.
- Avtomatk 4y agoI hear the term "threadset" in other discussion about structured concurrency, i think "threadset" would be a better name.
- avgcorrection 4y ago> Took me a while to get it — child processes belong in nurseries. Bad abstraction, because the key here is processes. Abstractions have nothing to do with their names. They are not good/bad based on what they are called. You might be conflating metaphors/analogies with that.