Re: Microsoft is turning VB in to C++

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

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Jim Rogers a �crit dans le message <88h19v$5em$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>The documented OOP extensions of Visual Basic certainly look a lot like
>C++. The place the really fall on their faces is their view of
>concurrency. They define "Free Threads". "Free Threads" appear to
>be little concurrent chunks that must execute completely
>asynchronously from the rest of the code. There does not seem to be
>any equivalent to a Rendezvous, or even mutually exclusive access to
>shared memory.
>


That was my understanding too. "Free Threads" seems not a very hot
feature to me :)

Pascal.

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