July 2008 - Posts
Last night, I realized that in my last post on messages, I skipped over one of the essential characters of message-passing APIs: that they separate the code that produces data from the code that acts on its availability with some level(s) of indirection.
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If you haven't taken a serious look at F# yet, you should. This OCaml-inspired language is a great combination of OO and functional programming concepts and will challenge your thinking about how software could (and should) be built. Functional programming
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As should be clear from the previus post, I'm not a big fan of the threads + locks model. An alternative approach is the one offered by message-passing, which is used every day in distributed applications and with enormous success. The world-wide web
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