Anyone who thinks concurrent programming is easy is either a genius or a fool.
By
Ryan Grove
on March 15, 2007
The Problem with Threads (PDF) is a good read on this subject.
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Relative to what?
It's really hard compared to breathing. But is it hard compared to async IO programming? No. And I don't think I'm a genius or a fool.
I do think there is a large group of people here who think I am a fool though so perhaps I better leave it at that.
Notice it's not genius xor fool; one can be both.
The either/or construct actually implies XOR, I believe.
XOR was indeed my intent behind that wording.
Sam, you're right; parse error on my part.