[skwiddor]

n.b. : I hit reply on the wrong post and only noticed after hitting submit

While not doomed, if you have the poor primitives you will have a bad time.

All the talk if it being so hard is because people try and figure it out for themselves while ignoring the literature. Hoare paved the way it in 1978 and basically solved the problem. I bet most programmers have barely heard of him, let alone read his work. It took 8 years to get the book printed but now it's a free download http://www.usingcsp.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...

It makes me so mad :>