Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:53:50 +1200 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <913q7eFpdlU3@mid.individual.net> References: <23020668-d86c-489a-988b-7b379f34851c@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <575d7b43-51c4-4905-ba16-15fe9b78373e@t16g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Nph/TDbaUE9wd6Ifw325vg1USV2KAY2dyoq5es7qo2omVBqVUY Cancel-Lock: sha1:oQi7IrcwOlkNCbZUjvtV/VJQ3VQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3118 comp.lang.c++:3984 On 04/19/11 08:32 AM, Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote: > * Lew, on 18.04.2011 22:22: >> Joe Snodgrass wrote: >>> Here's how NASA handles race conditions. >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/42p2t5f >>> >>> I searched Dr. Dobbs J, and got ten pages of matches. >> >> That link was worth ten times the expected maximum value for a Usenet link. >> >> Not least because it led to http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf, /Communicating >> Sequential Processes/, by C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare, with foreword by Edsger W. >> Dijkstra. > > I have that in hardcover. > > Some other interesting old books: > > Parallell Programming in ANSI Standard ADA - George W. Cherry > Lucid, the Dataflow Language - William W. Wadge& Edward A. Ashcroft > OCCAM Programming Manual - INMOS Limited > > OCCAM was sort of a language designed to express more or less directly Hoare's > concepts. Someone else who has used OCCAM in anger? Wow I thought I was the only one left! -- Ian Collins