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

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Well, there are a lot of ways to make it easier than explicit 
>> manipulation of mutexes and such--some of the involved research dates 
>> back to the early 60s--but even with these alternate methods, 
>> concurrency isn't easy.
> 
> Hum, like conditional variables?

I was thinking of Agents.  Hoare's CSP is fairly old as well--I think 
the original paper was published in the mid-late 70s.  Condition 
variables are just a building-block, along with mutexes, semaphores, etc.


Sean