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Re: Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field
- To: jeff dot sturm at commerceone dot com
- Subject: Re: Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:57:23 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: tromey at cygnus dot com, java-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
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Jeff Sturm writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr.html
> >
> > Interesting doc. Does anyone believe
> >
> > "A primary concern is the ability of unsophisticated programmers to
> > create reliable/correct multithreaded programs."
>
> No, but I guess it depends on what he means by "unsophisticated". You
> might say casual programmers (competent, but not expert) should be
> able to use threads. (I still hesitate to make that claim, knowing
> fully how dangerous threads can be.)
Right.
> His real objection is that several leading industry experts (including
> people at Sun) didn't really understand Java's memory model either. I
> agree that's a problem.
It sure is! But citing ease of use by unsophisticated programmers is
bad, whatever the true aim.
Andrew.