Re: Visual Frameworks vs. Cells compared to Flow-Based Programming

Paul Tarvydas wrote:

I think that this analysis is based on a faulty base assumption. You seem
to assume that I have to build this in assembly language and that you get
to use a kernel plus a programming language suited for your paradigm.

My comments were meant to what you described about your Lisp
implementation. I think I understand the system on embedded hardware with
interrupts, but for the Lisp implementation you wrote that they are not
really threads, but you need a cooperative multitasking and every process
needs to get-in get-out quick. I interpreted "get-out" as returning from a
function call.

Maybe some example code could help, how you would write the telegram
problem with your Lisp implementation, maybe with single chars, like you
suggested.

Another disadvantage is, that you don't utilize multi-core CPUs very well.

Why do you say this?

Because you wrote, that your Lisp implementation is not preemptive, which
implicits for me that you use a single thread for the scheduler, but maybe
I'm wrong.

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