From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T06:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] good article on threads

On 9/3/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > "To offer another analogy, a folk definition of insanity is to do the
> > same thing over and over again and expect the results to be different.
> > By this definition, we in fact require that programmers of
> > multithreaded systems be insane. Were they sane, they could not
> > understand their programs."
> >
>
> As Rick DeNatale pointed out, the folk analogy is nonsense. The real
> world just isn't deterministic.

Well, as far as we can tell, but it's a topic of debate.  Einstein
didn't much like the idea of God playing dice with the universe.
Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.

But can we tell the difference? <G>

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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