[vox] Who thinks Java is cool?

[Norm Matloff]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:15:08PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:00:54AM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote:
 
> > I think it's fair to say that it is a fact that shared-memory code is
> > simpler, i.e. takes up fewer lines of source code.
 
> > But is simpler clearer?  That is absolutely a matter of taste.
 
> But isn't there the ability to analyze for correctness the following
> non-functional requirements. I mean real parallel problems.
 
> boundedness, deadlock, safeness and liveness

Personally, I've never believed in that stuff.

Norm