The Art of Prolog – reading another classic programming text

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

I did have to learn some Prolog when I was studying CS and back then it was one of those “why do we have to learn this when everybody is programming in C or Turbo Pascal” (yes, I’m old). For some strange reason things clicked for me quicker with Prolog than Lisp, which I now […]

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Can you get a deadlock with a single lock and an IO operation?

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

Quite a while ago, I answered a question about the basic deadlock scenario on Stack Overflow. More recently, I got an interesting comment on it. The poster asked if it was possible to get a deadlock with a single lock and an I/O operation. My first gut reaction was “no, not really”, but it got […]

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