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Q CONCURRENCY

September 2008 Volume 6 Number 5

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Real-world Concurrency
Bryan Cantrill and
Jeff Bonwick,
Sun Microsystems
Fear not—concurrency is
not the bogeyman
it’s made out to be.

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Erlang for Concurrent
Programming
Jim Larson, Google
The Erlang language was
designed for concurrency.
Is there a place for it
in your next project?