From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Sep.07.02@... Date: 2002-09-08T01:02:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3D77C68B.1060502@t-online.de>, Christian Szegedy wrote: >paul@prescod.net wrote: > >> The consistency of Python code makes me more confident that I can bring on >> new programmers quickly. > >Ruby has nothing to complain about "newbie friendliness"... > >> Non-blocking threads >Ruby has them... > - - Not really. Ruby has a completely internal thread model that is blocked when a thread hits a blocking system call[1]. Threads are highly overrated IMHO, but a true native thread implementation would probably help all those misguided windows programmers that have been trained by a broken OS that the only way to concurrency is via threads. - - Booker C. Bense [1]- Since the OS knows nothing about Ruby's threads it blocks the whole process, not just the thread. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBPXodIGTWTAjn5N/lAQHATQQAtjY+BWeG12ML19582DEziYv/wP6/skhe sFSa3ZD+37WF+bZF70Sz6ZZ/3jt32OIraDcXdk64gbZpRfgxzfYIvxqVabMK/tMP AljapY2ZP6qm3whMD+4K9TXLASlhR5hXR87M4qFoVibRK1AaegrWnJnjFmpA6kWm Xsta9xbU7lc= =myWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----