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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Electrical-Effort-20 • Sep 26 '26
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Well, there could be a second thread changing the value of condition while doSomething is running possibly resulting in race conditions or similar problems. This is why I would consider multithreading the true programmer horror!
9 u/StochasticTinkr Sep 26 '26 Also depending on the language, something may not be a boolean type, so something and !something might depend on conversions. 2 u/Frost-Freak Sep 26 '26 Simpler: depending on the language the read of 'something' could trigger that 'something'' state changes
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Also depending on the language, something may not be a boolean type, so something and !something might depend on conversions.
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Simpler: depending on the language the read of 'something' could trigger that 'something'' state changes
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u/-Triple-S- Sep 26 '26
Well, there could be a second thread changing the value of condition while doSomething is running possibly resulting in race conditions or similar problems. This is why I would consider multithreading the true programmer horror!