A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure

A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure

Posted Jun 4, 2009 13:23 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure

No locks are required, therefore there are no deadlocks or race conditions.

Famouos last words :-) Erlang doesn't have mutable variables, so there's no need to use locks, still it's fairly easy to introduce deadlocks and race conditions as long as there's message passing between threads.

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