The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective :: Redux

[David Abrahams]

on Sun Jul 15 2007, Brad Anderson <brad-AT-dsource.org> wrote:

> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> I read in a recent article (I think it came from Slashdot, but not sure)
>> that a new programming paradigm is needed to make concurrency easier,
>> just in the same way as OO (and class encapsulation) improved on the
>> previous data abstraction paradigm to make code cleaner and easier to
>> write. Just in the same way as structured programming (ie, using
>> functions/scopes/modules) improved on the previous paradigm of
>> sequential/global/goto-using code, so to speak.
>
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/erlang.html
>
> search for "Concurrency Oriented Programming"

Before you get too excited, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78

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