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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 16:17:22 +0300
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On 16-06-18 14:38 , Hadrien Grasland wrote:
> After going through a thesaurus a bit, what would you think about
> "job", perhaps with an extra "asynchronous" qualifier?

Yes, I think "job" is much better than "task", in this context. "Action" 
could work, too.

Another similar word is "chore", but perhaps that sounds too negative 
and tiresome :-)

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