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rother··on Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]
I was not coding in 95, and therefore don’t understand the perspective of the author back then, but it seems clear from the presentation that the culprit was “shared mutable state”, not “threads”. Wasn’t functional programming a thing back then?