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It takes him all of five sentences to back off from his sensationalistic headline and admit there is another possibility: or the way they are using concurrency
by dkarl 17y ago
It takes him all of five sentences to back off from his sensationalistic headline and admit there is another possibility:
or the way they are using concurrency is restricted to nice simple patterns of interaction to which we can apply some simple mental analogy
Actually this possibility covers most programming requirements. I like to think I'm superhumanly smart, and I would love to tackle a hard concurrency problem, but so far I have only needed mundane engineering ingenuity to map my problems to known solutions.
- gdp 17y agoI see. The post was essentially a reaction against people going "concurrency is easy! What are you talking about it being hard?!" When people say "concurrency is easy", they mean "I use little bits of concurrency that I understand well and I find those easy". That's not the same as "concurrency is easy". That kind of arrogance is essentially like saying "flying a jet fighter is easy, because I know how to use a seatbelt".