[Jprogramming] sdasync on Linux?

[Raul Miller]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iverson at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no sdasync on platforms other than windows. The facility
> could be constructed and is a medium to small project. But given that
> select works, I don't think it is worth the effort. With select you
> can do quite a bit. That is, a J task can wait on select for events on
> any number of sockets and process them as desired. One of the sockets
> that task waits on could be from your user GUI interface task.

I certainly agree that it is not worth your effort.

However, some development styles work better with the sdasync
mechanism than with the select mechanism. If I might be
oversimplistic, I'd point out that sdasync can be concise in some
contexts.

Another perspective here is that this kind of project can serve as
training for a developer wishing to become comfortable with the J
implementation.

Finally, I should also note that there's other models for interaction
which can serve this same space.  (trigger/dependencies, and
functional reactive programming.)

Thanks,

-- 
Raul