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Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> writes:

> In any case, believe it or not, lots of people do concurrent programming
> in languages without built-in tasking, and rely on library packages to
> provide that support.

They also rely on their compiler to behave sanely.  I'd not more rely
on a compiler which is not thread aware to build an application with
threads at least in C++ (thinks about exception handling, this is an
area where the generated code can be easily not thread save).

-- 
Jean-Marc