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We may want to move discussions about the daily rantings of Joel Spolsky out of Hacker News. Joel has his opinions about a lot of programming matters (TDD for
by niyazpk 17y ago
We may want to move discussions about the daily rantings of Joel Spolsky out of Hacker News.
Joel has his opinions about a lot of programming matters (TDD for example) and combined with his witty way of presenting stuff those opinions should not be given any seriousness than it deserves.
I personally like Joel as a writer and I do listen to his StackOverflow podcasts and I think he is being misunderstood as having strong feelings against multi-threaded programming or TDD while the fact is that he adds these superlatives for an added effect in his talks and writing. Just ignore those and you will be fine.
- j_baker 17y ago+1 In particular, I think Joel does have a point here. Yeah, so maybe he's exaggerating by saying it's impossible. But I would imagine that multi-threading in C (like most things in C) is really difficult. Especially compared to more modern languages that make it much easier.
- skwiddor 17y agoIt's only hard if you have the wrong primitives http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread
- axod 17y agoIf programming was easy, everyone would do it.
- jganetsk 17y agoMultithreading is never easy. Even in Erlang, you have race conditions.