against threads as a programming model

[Michael Davies]

On 9/1/06, Romana Branden <romana at timelady.com> wrote:
> For concurrent programming to become mainstream, we must discard threads
> as a programming model. Nondeterminism should be judiciously and
> carefully introduced where needed, and it should be explicit in
> programs.
> http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=computer_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=computer/homepage/0506&file=cover.xml&xsl=article.xsl


A couple of smart guys in the eastern states say something similar
that's worth a read -
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/languages/java/java-threads.html

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