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by madawan 4182 days ago
Some problems might be easier to solve in one language than in another. If you can't solve quicksort in ASM, does that mean people would be correct in wanting to refrain you from solving it in Python? It's a bit grotesque but completely analogous to your objection.

It is the opinion of many that cooperative multitasking is not the way to go if you want to solve problems which require massive concurrency.

PS: In Racket, you could defend against threads going into infinite loops with custodians.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/#%28part._.Terminating_.Con...