> For the benefit of any who are not sure what you are talking about, could you please elaborate on what some of these "better ways to handle that" are?
While I am not certain what the GP specifically references, I can say that about 40 years ago the Actor model[1] was officially documented. The literature documenting benefits of an Actor model over a callback approach are easily found. For understanding the pain which callback-based systems often produce, a person can familiarize themselves with the Win32 API (disclaimer: this is a masochistic exercise not recommended for anyone).
Re:Node v4.0.0
by pdpi on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:04AM
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Even if you don't go the actor route, if you're going to use continuation passing style as much as Node wants you to, having a language with better CPS support would be much nicer
While I am not certain what the GP specifically references, I can say that about 40 years ago the Actor model[1] was officially documented. The literature documenting benefits of an Actor model over a callback approach are easily found. For understanding the pain which callback-based systems often produce, a person can familiarize themselves with the Win32 API (disclaimer: this is a masochistic exercise not recommended for anyone).
1 - https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/history/actors/AIM-410.pd...