Synchronous vs Asynchronous

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From: Ken Warkentyne
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 09:37

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John Dilley <jad@nsa.hp.com> writes:
> 	The point is to preserve the more convenient synchronous
> 	model.
 
In article <5426@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) wrote:
> But is it really more convienient?  I think it's rather contrived.  I
> believe that we live in an asynchronous world.  As such, asynchronous
> programming is "natural" to me.  The whole notion of giving up control
> to a proceedure call that may take an indeterminate amount of time
> seems backwards to me.

Have you tried writing something in CCS or CSP, which are based
on synchronous communications?  It seems quite natural to me.
I suggest that people interested in the suitability of
synchronous concurrent programming read Robin Milner's book on CCS.
--
Ken Warkentyne - warkent@ltisun.epfl.ch
                 Laboratoire de Teleinformatique, EPFL, Suisse.

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