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Re: What's the deal with deadlocks

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* Ian Collins, on 18.04.2011 23:53:
> 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!

You may well be the last: I never used it, I just wanted to learn about it 
(within my economic means, and I think I got that manual at a "basement bargain" 
shop).

Anyway, this is fun.

Discussing OCCAM, cross-posted to [comp.lang.c++] and 
[comp.lang.java.programmer]. :-)


Cheers,

- Alf

-- 
blog at <url: http://alfps.wordpress.com>

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    Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-18 08:41 +1200
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      Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-18 16:22 -0400
        Re: What's the deal with deadlocks "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 22:32 +0200
          Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-19 09:53 +1200
            Re: What's the deal with deadlocks "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 01:21 +0200
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              Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-19 23:01 -0400
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