Thursday, March 12, 2009

Multiprogramming? Pretty good

While searching through peoples blogs today, I found one named Innovashun which describes different technological positives and negatives. I came across one of his posts which the author Rob talks about multiprogramming and how you need it. After thinking about it I can do nothing but agree with his posts. He talks about how many programmers think that C is the only programming language that they need to know and that they are wrong. Every programmer should be able to work in a Linux/Unix enviroment with mulithreaded programming. This is because each process holds its own seperate address which allows different processes not to interrupt each other and therefore you can get the correct data the whole time. Although C is a very good programming language, the way to get the best possible results is by multiprogramming with multiple threads. It is definitly time for as Rob says for people to "start waking up" to multiprogramming and not only focus on programming in C for all their needs such as object orientated programming.

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