uriel

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by uriel 17y ago
While I generally agree, I find Theo's positions much more consistent an principled than RMS's, although to Stallman's credit he gave the FSF award to Theo some years back for all the amazing work the OpenBSD people have done on opening up
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by uriel 17y ago
Actually BSD is for people that love BSD (some would even say LSD ;)), Plan 9 is for people that understood and loved Unix before it died.
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by uriel 17y ago
"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there" -- Ken Thompson
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Very Concurrent Mark&Sweep Garbage Collection without Fine-Grain Synchronization(doc.cat-v.org)
29 points by uriel 17y ago|0 comments
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by uriel 17y ago
> schlepping around large data structures in message-passing can be a performance problem, Not really, it is not too hard to implement it locally as passing pointers around.
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by uriel 17y ago
'Highly productive people' have been using this for quite a while... ;) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/face_the_nation/
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by uriel 17y ago
> Message-passing works quite well, but coroutines are also a viable option. Why not both as in CSP/Limbo? ;) Edit: Note that you can get both in C too using the confusingly named libthread(2) http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread (Als
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by uriel 17y ago
> Programmers working on concurrency, locking, etc are often solving self inflicted problems. I don't know why they do it. Sadly this is true of most 'problems' in the software industry :(
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by uriel 17y ago
> The problem, in my mind, is that many languages provide 'transparent' shared state between the threads - which can easily introduce very subtle bugs. That is the reason languages like Limbo ( http://limbo.cat-v.org ) and Erlang were
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Threads, slow and buggy(and.org)
31 points by uriel 17y ago|15 comments
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by uriel 17y ago
It is XML and XMPP , to say that it is evil would be redundant. A real pity, because the idea is quite neat.
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AAA: The Amazing Awk Assembler by Henry Spencer(doc.cat-v.org)
8 points by uriel 17y ago|0 comments