From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-20 13:27:13
At 11:21 AM 7/19/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
>At Saturday 2003-07-19 07:24, you wrote:
>>I've added the entry below to the Boost.Threads bibliography page in
CVS.
>>I also added the Wirth quote to the FAQ: "semaphores ... are not
suitable
>>for higher level languages."
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>Wirth also designed a language (called Pascal) in which the switch/case
>statement had NO default, and defended it for years, mayhaps he was also
in
>error about semaphores.
Sure, and maybe Dijkstra, Hoare, and Brinch Hansen were wrong about
semaphores too. But not likely, IMO.
--Beman