Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Cees de Groot]

Christian Tismer  <tismer at tismer.com> said:
>Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>...
>> Also; the hype that's used here is all about the "enterprise"
>> (whatever that is) and how Java is basically the new COBOL.
>> Continuations are a LISPish feature, and won't be appreciated, as far
>> as I can tell, by the ex-COBOL community now coming into Java.
>
>This argument has hit me right between the eyes.
>I may be changing targets again, not so sure,
>but see Jeff Senn's post and my reply.
>Rebuilding Python as a very tiny, scalable engine
>for microcontrollers could be what we need, soon.
>
Gee, you're easy to influence. One Java-hater passes by, drops a couple
of casual and largely incorrect remarks, and you immediately retarget...

It's probably right that the ex-COBOL community is coming to Java. Luckily,
they're not the only ones, and the fact that the COBOL guys are moving over
doesn't immediately make a language worthless.

Side note: I haven't followed the whole stackless discussion, but I don't
understand why you can get C to follow your ideas without having to 
modify the sillicon machine it's running on, while for Java you would need to
have to modify the software machine it's running on. But then, I'm a 
no-brainer doing Java...


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