From: Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan@...>
Date: 2001-05-21T06:10:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15436] Re: PROPOSAL: Java-like method-based synchronization mechanism in Ruby


"Wyss Clemens" <WYS@helbling.ch> wrote
in message news:2121D3CBCBE8D111B2C200805F0DF9036ABBB5@HTKA60MS01NT...

> Any comments, improvements?

Ruby borrows several good things from Smalltalk, Scheme, Perl, etc.

Would that Ruby borrowed Communicating Sequential Processes
from Erlang. http://www.erlang.org

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be programming with
monitors and shared variables anymore. Java chose Hoare's monitor
mechanism even though Hoare himself abandoned them for CSPs in
the late 1970s.

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