DATAISM ONE

1 - Some current news, some inspirations http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/moores-law-computing-processing-opinions-contributors-bill-dally.html 2 - Some technical viewpoints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_paradigms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming http://www.scala-lang.org/ " Functional programming - treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data . " So what am I thinking? The mutable data means, you have to or "must" control which function takes this data first if there are some functions concurrently refer to it. E.g: Normal case: Integer n = 1; n = n + 1; System.out.print(n); You get 2 Concurrent case: Integer n = 1; A thread do n = n + 1; A another thread do n = n - 1; 2 threads use the shared object " Integer n". 2.1 - The waiting for your dinner What happens when you share a fork with your