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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 08:27:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 02:36:01 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wibbled:
>On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:56:46 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>
>> On 07 Jan 2025 15:54:48 GMT Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org>
>> wibbled:
>>
>>>I tried, and stopped trying using threads for I/O concurrency.
>> 
>> For some mad reason it seems to be the way to do it in Windows and also
>> Java IIRC.
>
>Remember the era: it was the 1990s, when threads were still a new thing to 
>PC OSes, and they were considered the best way to do everything involving 
>nondeterminism, including GUIs.

Unfortunately there are still far to many programmers around for whom threads
are their go to hammer no matter what problem they're trying to solve.