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::::Now it is much clearer. Should there be a similar task that allows communication between processes? The [[Fork Process]] is the closest I can find, but doesn't involve communication. [[User:Ahy1|Ahy1]] 23:11, 21 October 2007 (MDT)
::::Communication between processes is always an operating system feature. Some languages such as Shell provide built-in communication through pipes, which were originally a Unix feature. Other forms of inter-process communication should include signals, semaphores, message queues, and in at least one operating system, message files. Implementations of pipes, for instance, will be fundamentally the same for all languages. The reason for that is that the API for any given Operating System is fixed for all languages. I do not think such a task will reveal very much about languages. [[User:Waldorf|Waldorf]] 19:30, 4 November 2007 (MST)
::::: I have added the Unix Pipes example, and it does reveal some thing about the language, as its usage defines the language :) perhaps It should be allowed? Also the distinction you seem to be making is probably better put as between shared state concurrency and message passing concurrency, as the syntax and semantics of the language may not rely on the exact same operating system features every time (For e.g if I implement bash over JVM, I would not be using pipes, but that would not be visible to the user.). [[User:Rahul|Rahul]] 13:54, 15 April 2008 (MDT)
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