Will multithreading make python less popular?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Aahz" <aahz at py....aft.com> wrote:


> In article <mailman.52.1234797812.11746.python-list at python.org>,
> Hendrik van Rooyen <ma....orp.co.za> wrote:
> >
> >Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize, but
> >didn't.
> 
> It wasn't simple enough.

I thought (at the time) that it was quite good at hiding some
horrible complexities of communication between different
processes on the same, and different processors.

All done by the compiler, automagically.

I think now that a hard look at the underlying techniques
used then could add something to the debate referred to
earlier - but there may be a barrier because the dataflow
or systolic array type programming model is not one
that is currently fashionable.

- Hendrik