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Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines?

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On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 6:41:38 PM UTC+5:30, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2015 21:47:17 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody declaimed the following:
> 
> >If the classic Pascal (or Fortran or Basic) sibling balanced abstractions of function-for-value
> >procedure-for-effect were more in the collective consciousness rather than C's
> >travesty of function, things might not have been so messy.
> >
> 	I suspect just the term "subprogram" (as in "function subprogram" and
> "subroutine subprogram") would confuse a lot of cubs these days...
> 
> >C didn't start the mess of mixing procedure and function -- Lisp/Apl did.
> >Nor the confusion of = for assignment; Fortran did that.
> 
> 	I don't think you can blame FORTRAN for that, given that it was one of
> the first of the higher level languages, and had no confusion internally...

BLAME?? Ha You are being funny Dennis!

There are fat regulation-books that pilots need to follow. Breaking them can
make one culpable all the way to homicide.
The Wright-brothers probably broke them all. Should we call them homicidal maniacs?

Shakespeare sometimes has funny spellings. I guess he's illiterate for not turning on the spell-checker in Word?

Or [my favorite] Abraham Lincoln used the word 'negro'. So he's a racist?

Speaking more conceptually, there are pioneers and us ordinary folks.¹
The world as we know it is largely a creation of these pioneers.
And if you take them and stuff them into the statistically ordinary mold then fit badly.

That puts people especially teachers into a bind.
If I expect my students to be 1/100 as pioneering as Backus, Thomson, Ritchie 
etc, I would be foolish
And if I dont spell out all their mistakes in minute detail and pull them up
for repeating them, I'd not be doing due diligence

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I guess this is nowadays called the 'romantic' view.
Ask the family-members of any of these greats for the 'other' view  :-)

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asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 08:22 -0700
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:11 -0500
    Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 10:55 -0700
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-05 13:15 -0400
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-05 20:45 +0300
    Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 21:47 -0700
      Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-06 15:48 +1000
        Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 21:06 -0700
          Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 14:33 +1000
            Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 21:53 -0700
              Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 21:55 -0700
              Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 15:09 +1000
                Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 23:36 -0700
                Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 16:42 +1000
                Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-08 07:53 -0400
                Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 23:02 +1000
      Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-06 09:11 -0400
        Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 21:20 -0700
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:46 -0600
    Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:03 -0700
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 12:55 -0500
  Re: asyncio: What is the difference between tasks, futures, and coroutines? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-05 18:38 -0400

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