Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:21:45 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <23020668-d86c-489a-988b-7b379f34851c@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <575d7b43-51c4-4905-ba16-15fe9b78373e@t16g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <913q7eFpdlU3@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="iYQNcHckTm+srThRKCAVyQ"; logging-data="17548"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dBOils9lAbXISCnwEVhss" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: <913q7eFpdlU3@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:s3NZMuqBTk/mwE7ifOqpImTqK+M= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3121 comp.lang.c++:3990 * 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