What I'm saying is that a programming model that's confusing to you is perfectly natural to someone else who comes from an environment where that model is all you have. People have used interrupt/event handlers and callbacks literally since the dawn of computing. It's nothing new. It just has to be learned, the way programming itself has to be learned.
Have you considered that the reason the dumb, synchronous Unix model is much more common is because it's easier for people to understand? There must be some reason that it succeeded despite being less efficient.
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What I'm saying is that a programming model that's confusing to you is perfectly natural to someone else who comes from an environment where that model is all you have. People have used interrupt/event handlers and callbacks literally since the dawn of computing. It's nothing new. It just has to be learned, the way programming itself has to be learned.
Have you considered that the reason the dumb, synchronous Unix model is much more common is because it's easier for people to understand? There must be some reason that it succeeded despite being less efficient.
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