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

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On Tue, 5 May 2015 21:47:17 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody
<rustompmody@gmail.com> 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...
The comparison operator being .EQ. (and kin: .LT. .GT. .LE. .GE. .NE.); and
with assignment as a statement, not an expression in its own right, no
chance of even something like
	IF (X = Y .EQ. Z) GOTO 123
to be concerned about.

	Confusion over assignment vs equality I'd lay firmly on C
	if (x = y == z) break;

-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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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
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  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
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            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
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      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
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