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Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity?

From dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity?
Date 2014-02-20 16:36 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:17:36 +0000, dialmove wrote:

> The Functional Reactive paradigm provides better abstractions for
> concurrency than imperative code - futures, promises and observables are
> at a way higher level than locks and semaphores, and in many cases allow
> writing complex asynchronous code in a pure functional way. For the rest
> of cases, you can add explicit state and transform it into an
> agent-based model, which is essentially OOP parallelism done right.
> 
> So yes, I think a high-level paradigm that simplifies synchronization
> can make complex parallel tasks easier to program and reason about. I've
> seen some examples in action, of which Espresso Logic is an awesome
> case.

...aaaaand, this writer at the old site explains it way more eloquently 
that I ever could:

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527735&cid=45625371

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Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-18 16:33 -0800
  Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 16:17 +0000
    Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 16:36 +0000
      Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 20:09 +0200
        Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 13:05 -0800
          Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 23:18 +0200
            Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 13:40 -0800
            Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 13:56 +0000
          Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 13:34 +0000
            Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-21 16:57 +0200
              Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 15:49 +0000
                Re: Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-21 18:22 +0200

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