Nigel Hamilton schreef: > From the point of view of the operating system a program is a nasty > exception to its normal running environment - your whole program is a > kind of big exception!
As if a real OS really likes to run idle most of the time. ;) > Like someone intruding on a conversation the programmer tries to > change the topic of the operating system. "Hey can you get that > network socket for me?" > > Programmers are constantly trying to change the "topic" of > conversation of the operating system. "Hey drop what you're doing. > This is important. Get me that file." Or the OS is more like a waiter, nervously circling the tables, watching out for orders. > Is there a way of integrating Perl's natural ability to stay on topic > ($_) with exception handling, and event handling? http://poe.perl.org/?POE_FAQ/Will_Perl_6_make_POE_obsolete And how about agents and messages? -- Grtz, Ruud
