Count your blessings!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-06-10 17:38:55 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>> * there is nothing to improve threads, further demotivating support 
>> for Deadlock-Oriented Programming (DOP) in D
> 
> On the contrary. I believe they're doing nothing because their hands are 
> tied.
> 
> They cannot do much for multithreading at the language level without 
> creating breaking changes.

Actually they could. For example, introducing qualifiers that add 
restrictions would be backwards-compatible. Besides, they are highly 
motivated because Java is DOP bonanza and has no solid alternatives. But 
they didn't.

Andrei