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Good article, but I was kinda disappointed not to have what I expected to be a good read about the evolution of how people use semicolons in natural language. Now I want to read that too.
Can someone link to a good introduction to the problem? I just wasn't able to completely understand it from the examples in the linked article.
I don't do much threaded programming - I think it's come up once in my career? (and fortunately at the time I was pairing with a Java guru) - so I don't completely understand the issues here. Can someone link to a good introduction to the problem? I just wasn't able to completely understand it from the examples in the linked article.
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She's not much of a cook either, apparently : "A: heat oil in a skillet, and B: add in chopped vegetables"
What don't you like about that? If you heat the vegetables and oil together, they can slowly lose their water and essentially boil, and taste boring; if you let the oil get to the right temperature and then add the vegetables, then they'll cook up nicely, with plenty of Maillard reactions (browning), and taste delicious.
So Alice quits programming and goes back to cooking because Math is Hard. And we wonder why there are gender issues in tech.
I had a completely different reading. I thought the fable portrayed Alice as thoughtful and bright. The punchline is that this talented student was right to leave programming for cooking because the lack of sequential consistency in high-level languages is absurd.
And vola! I mean voila
Good article, but I was kinda disappointed not to have what I expected to be a good read about the evolution of how people use semicolons in natural language. Now I want to read that too.
> there are no data races
No, we take locks or use other memory fence primitives. You introduced Alice to multithreaded programming without teaching her about locks?
Good article, but I was kinda disappointed not to have what I expected to be a good read about the evolution of how people use semicolons in natural language. Now I want to read that too.