Douglas Crockford on threads

“In systems programming threads are a necessary evil. In application programming they’re just evil.”

“The biggest mistake of Java was that it could not decide whether it was meant to be a system or application programming language”

Douglas Crockford on Front-Trends 2010 conference in Warsaw (during a speech on – surprise surprise! – server side JavaScript

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