From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-05-28T06:52:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Threads... "Phil Tomson" writes: > On 5/27/06, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote: >> >> Sometimes I think language design in the real world has been held >> back by the >> limitations of the two generally available OS frameworks (Unix and >> Windows). > > And perhaps also the fact that we've been stuck with the Von Neumann > architecture for so long... or may be we've been stuck with the Von > Neumann architecture for so long because our languages haven't evolved > in order to effectively model a different architecture? Shouldn't we know that since 1977? What is everyone doing? http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf > Phil -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org