long tasks

Newsgroups	comp.programming
Date	2012-10-02 07:36 -0700
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Subject	long tasks
From	bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com>

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I've noticed that one of the things that makes real-world programming difficult is time-consuming tasks (or potentially time-consuming tasks).  Some examples are downloading a file & reading from a database (maybe).

Usually these are handled in the real-world by things like multi-threading and callbacks, which can quickly turn messy.  Are there other strategies that can maybe handle these things more simply?

One theoretical ideal approach is to just "make everything fast."  Of course, this is more theoretical than practical.

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long tasks bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-10-02 07:36 -0700
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