[E-Lang] Re: Why Not Coroutines? (was: Deadlock-free [was what is good about E?])

[zooko@zooko.com]

[removing Cc: GvR, dnm, MarkM]

 MarkM wrote:
>
> * The qualifier on the first reason I actually had not yet stated:  E does 
> allow certain external devices (expected to be prompt) to be called in a 
> synchronous manner, such as reading from a (hopefully local) file, 

Just as an aside, a high-performance E program might want to read from disk
asynchronously so that the whole E Vat doesn't have to wait for the disk
access...

Regards,

Zooko