[PRL] "Threads Considered Harmful" in the news

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Joe Marshall wrote:

>
>> 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.
>
> For what it is worth, I agree completely.  I really don't care  
> *how* my computer
> solves a problem, I care that it *does*.


Do you care about predictability? I find Will's reaction is over the  
top.
I really do like predicting the outcome of a computation as a  
programmer.
It helps me reason (test/debug/etc). -- Matthias