[TUHS] Step Into the Real-Life Lumon Industries, the Breakout Star of ‘Severance’

[Rob Pike]

I'm sure they knew about that, but had never considered the consequences
for user interfaces.

-rob


On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:

> On Mar 8, 2025, at 6:05 PM, Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I was at PARC in 1984, working with Dan Ingalls. I mentioned I was
> surprised that Smalltalk had no concurrency†, that the UI (let alone the
> system) was completely single-threaded. Only the window with focus could
> execute any code. Dan being Dan, he immediately got to work making a form
> of concurrency happen, followed by a delightful orgy of researches playing
> with the new toy. I loved it.
>
> Because: sometimes in isolation you miss important things going on in the
> outside world.
>
>
> Surely they must've read papers on concurrency & were aware of CSP,
> monitors, the Actor model etc?
>
> A few years ago at a dinner I had asked Don Knuth whether he was going to
> write any books on parallel algorithms. Alas, I don't recall his exact
> answer but he didn't seem keen on the idea -- I was a bit surprised but
> thinking more about it, it made sense. [Still would like to see someone
> attempt a Knuth style encyclopedic treatment to the subject of
> concurrent/parallel algorithms!]
>
>
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