Re: [boost] Boost.Threads bibliography update

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."
 >
 >
 >
 >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