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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Coroutines in C
Message-ID: <5713@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Aug 89 14:07:17 GMT
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In article <10747@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <5695@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> What sort of problems do you want coroutines for?
[actually someone else wrote that]

> >Mainly for the sort of event-loop programming endemic to windowing systems.

> Ah, you raise an interesting point.  EVENT LOOPS SUCK.

#pragma begin arthur-dent-voice
Yes, well that's the point isn't it?
#pragma end arthur-dent-voice

Going to threads is a moderately nice way to work around the problem.
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