Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:59:02 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> boringly babbled:

On 17/08/2024 11:01, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:02:20 -0000 (UTC)
kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) gabbled:

So it is indeed a vague question of what belongs in given programming
languages.

 
Indeed. And this gives rise to inconsistency. Why is threading now considered

>

a core part of C++ but multi process isn't? Perhaps because Windows is

hopeless

at the latter in user space but it could just be personal preference within

the

C++ steering committee, who knows.
 

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No, it is because of what the term "program" usually means, along with
the terms "process" and "thread" (at the OS level).  With C++, you write
"programs", and each process is a running program.  Like most languages,
C++ does not cover what happens outside the program - that's part of the
OS specification, or specifications for other programs or other parts of
the complete system.  But threads are /within/ the program, and thus
covered (to at least some extent) by the language used to write the program.

Sorry, thats just word salad. The program is the code, how many copies of it
are running is irrelevant.