Introduction: Threads and Omissions

An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads

The attached paper by Andrew Birrell, An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads, originally appeared as An Introduction to Programming with Threads, report 35 of the Systems Research Center, Digital Equipment Corp., Jan. 1989; it was based on the Modula-3 language. A somewhat revised version appears as chapter 4 of Systems Programming with Modula-3, Greg Nelson ed., Prentice-Hall, 1991, pp...

An Introduction to Programming with Threads

This paper provides an introduction to writing concurrent programs with " threads ". A threads facility allows you to write programs with multiple simultaneous points of execution, synchronizing through shared memory. The paper describes the basic thread and synchronization primitives, then for each primitive provides a tutorial on how to use it. The tutorial sections provide advice on the best...

Omissions and Causalism∗

Omissions are puzzling, so puzzling that people tend to say puzzling things about them and give up otherwise attractive philosophical theories in order to accommodate them.1 In this paper I suggest that omissions make trouble—serious trouble, and trouble of a new, sui generis kind—for “causalism,” the standard view or family of views of agency. In particular, I am interested in causalism as an ...

Acts and omissions revisited.

Intentional Omissions

Often when one omits to do a certain thing, one’s omission is due to one’s simply not having considered, or one’s having forgotten, to do that thing. When this is so, one does not intentionally omit to do that thing. But sometimes one intentionally omits to do something. For example, Ann was asked by Bob to pick him up at the airport at 2:30 am, after his arrival at 2:00. Feeling tired and know...