From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B8FBC0A for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:34:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.janestcapital.com (www.janestcapital.com [66.155.124.107]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4NJYuNp004784 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:34:57 +0200 Received: from [172.25.129.161] [38.96.172.125] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.10) id A7690360; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:35:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4654975F.5060108@janestcapital.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:55 -0400 From: Brian Hurt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert.fischer@SmokejumperIT.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve. References: <1179871823.6966.78.camel@Blefuscu> <200705230039.29659.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20070523185428.GA32681@furbychan.cocan.org> <4654959C.7040701@fischerventure.com> In-Reply-To: <4654959C.7040701@fischerventure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46549760.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; threads:01 erlang:01 haskell:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 concurrency:02 functional:02 functional:02 languages:03 locks:03 brian:04 brian:04 problem:05 teaching:07 teaching:07 Robert C Fischer wrote: > ...and locks and threads are not a viable long-term solution to the > problem of concurrency in general. You're future-proofing enough by > teaching them functional languages: Erlang and Cilk are closer to the > needed future. > I think you mean "Haskell+STM" instead of Cilk. Cilk isn't a particularly functional language (being effectively C plus a little bit). Brian