Talk:SantaClausProblem

Beautiful concurrency

I am writing a chapter for a book called "Beautiful code", edited by Greg Wilson. My draft chapter is about Software Transactional Memory in Haskell.

I would welcome any comments or questions you have on the paper, or constructive suggestions for improving it; the more concrete the better.

The book is aimed at a general audience of programmers, not Haskell geeks, so I have tried to explain everything necessary as I go along. So if you are not a Haskell expert, your input would be particularly valuable to me.

You can email me directly (simonpj@microsoft.com), or add Wiki talk notes below.

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ArthurVanLeeuwen 16:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC) There's a couple of typos in the paper as it is now. More importantly, the footnote on page 2 has (hGetLine h "hello") where it should state (hPutStr h "hello").

Neil Mitchell 16:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Sect 1, Para 2. If we want to write parallel program[s] - missing s.

Steven807 17:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC) There is no definition or description of check

Tibbe 18:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC); The footnote on page 2 now has a incorrectly capitalized T in hPutSTr.

Fanf 18:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 1 para 2 "as well shall see" should be "as we shall see"

Fanf 18:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 3 "a bit like *t in C" should be "a bit like t* in C" since t is a type

Garious 18:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 10 "at which point An elf" should be "at which point an elf"

Garious 18:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 10 "Here, then is a possible" should be "Here then, is a possible"

Garious 19:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 11 "Again, we define Group is declared" whaaa? maybe: "Group is declared as a data type with constructor MkGroup. MkGroup is passed the Group's capacity, and a TVar containing the number of current members and the Group's two Gates."

Garious 19:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC) page 11 "Creating a new Group is simply..." Is a process of three somewhat-abstract steps simple enough to say 'simply'? Instead, maybe show the code and let the reader think, "Hey, that's simple!"

Rycee 20:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Page 4. You probably want to change "... the action a does ..." to "... the action act does ..."

Rycee 20:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Page 8. Typographic nitpick: The space after "i.e." looks wide, perhaps you forgot to write "i.e.\ " to force a regular (non sentence ending) space in LaTeX?

MichalPalka 22:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC) You could add a reference to SQL and triggers. They are similar in that it is programming with transations and seeing familiar names will make applied programmers feel more comfortable.