The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[James Miller]

* Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> [2012-04-10 05:57:52 +0200]:

> Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:50:32 +1200
> schrieb James Miller <james at aatch.net>:
> 
> > Slightly OT: With the unstoppable march of parallel programming, does
> > anybody else find node.js incredibly infuriating, since it is
> > single-core.
> 
> Don't blame the library. EcmaScript was designed to be single-core. I imagine that web scripting language to be much more complex with multi-threading in user code. You are using the wrong tool for the job ;)
> 
> -- 
> Marco
> 

I meant that the fact that node.js is gaining popularity, despite the
fact that we want to move away from single-threaded applications, is
incredibly backwards.

I'm not using node, I have to use PHP at work, which at the very least
gets help from the webserver in terms of parallel processing.

--
James Miller