[Haskell] select(2) or poll(2)-like function?

[Don Stewart]

Redirecting to haskell-cafe@, where this kind of long discussion belongs.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Colin Adams
<colinpauladams at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 18 April 2011 16:54, Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de> wrote:
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>> >
>> > Well, *someone* has to worry about robustness and scalability. Users
>> > notice when their two minute system builds start taking four minutes
>> > (and will be at my door wanting me to fix it) because something didn't
>> > scale fast enough, or have to be run more than once because a failing
>> > component build wasn't restarted properly. I'm willing to believe that
>> > haskell lets you write more scalable code than C, but C's tools for
>> > handling concurrency suck, so that should be true in any language
>> > where someone actually thought about dealing with concurrency beyond
>> > locks and protected methods. The problem is, the only language I've
>> > found where that's true that *also* has reasonable tools to deal with
>> > scaling beyond a single system is Eiffel (which apparently abstracts
>> > things even further than haskell - details like how concurrency is
>> > achieved or how many concurrent operations you can have are configured
>> > when you start an application, *not* when writing it). Unfortunately,
>> > Eiffel has other problems that make it undesirable.
>>
>> I can't make a comparison, because I don't know Eiffel.
>
> I do, and I don't recognize what the OP is referring to - I suspect he meant
> Erlang.
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