Robert C Fischer wrote:

> ...and locks and threads are not a viable long-term solution to the 
> problem of concurrency in general.  You're future-proofing enough by 
> teaching them functional languages: Erlang and Cilk are closer to the 
> needed future.
>
I think you mean "Haskell+STM" instead of Cilk.  Cilk isn't a 
particularly functional language (being effectively C plus a little bit).

Brian