[PRL] "Threads Considered Harmful" in the news

[William D Clinger]

>From the article Mitch quoted:

> ....In it, he observes that threads remove determinism and open the door
> to subtle yet deadly bugs, and that while the problems were to some extent
> manageable on single core systems, threads on multicore systems will magnify
> the problems out of control. He suggests the only solution is to stop
> bolting parallelism onto languages and components--instead design new
> deterministically-composable components and languages.

That's reactionary.  Determinism has never been
fundamental, and attempts to return to the Eden
where we could pretend it was will fail.  What
we need are nondeterministically-composable
components and languages.

Will