D2 status interim report ?

[janderson]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> There are decades of research in SMP and a raft of established practice...
>>> outside of the classic and frustrating explicit use of mutexes and the like.
>>> Why not agents, CSP, transactional memory, plain old parallel programming
>>> instructions as per languages like Cilk, etc?  This is one area where I don't
>>> think D should necessarily try to re-invent the wheel.
>> None of them has caught on and established itself as the right way to do
>> parallel programming.
> 
> I don't think that looking at the history of mainstream programming is going
> to be of much use here.  SMP didn't even matter until just a few years ago, as
> most of the world's programmers weren't targeting platforms where SMP was
> practical or desirable.  But the research community hasn't been standing still,
> and some specialist circles have been doing SMP all along.  I suppose what I'm
> saying is that I think it's wrongheaded to discount existing practice because
> none of them are mainstream, because this has nothing to do with how good
> they are.

That is so true.  Look at D for instance.

> Sean