Re: Book in concurrent programming

FROM : Marc Respass
DATE : Sun May 01 17:17:29 2005

Thanks for the info, Daniel. I looked on Amazon and found the book 
you cite available used. The same author seems to have a newer 
edition "Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming" which 
is available new at significantly higher cost :). Thought others 
would like to know.

Marc

On Apr 27, 2005, at 4:01 AM, Daniel Eggert wrote:

> The best book on concurrent programming that I've ever come across 
> is no doubt
>    Mordechai Ben-Ari: "Principles of Concurrent Programming", 
> Prentice Hall, 1982
>    ISBN 0-13-701078-8
> It's a concise, to-the-point text book on concurrent programming, 
> introducing the reader to the problem of concurrency and their 
> solutions. Although the book is over twenty years old, all modern 
> concurrency programming is based on the concepts and solution 
> discussed therein.
>
> Unless you want a language or API specific approach, I don't think, 
> you'll get anything better. Only problem is, that the book may be 
> hard to find. I think Prentice Hall stopped printing it. Most 
> likely since the book lacks buzz words such as Java, C# or the like.
>
> /Daniel
>
>
>
> On 26 Apr 2005, at 02:40, Miguel Arroz wrote:
>
>

>> Hello!
>>
>>  I know this is way off-topic, but I'm asking this here because I 
>> believe that people who read this mail-list are very good 
>> programmers, way above average. Also, you are people who are not 
>> Java-centric, and that's good in this case. So, I would like your 
>> opinion on this.
>>
>>  I want to buy a good concurrent programming book. A book that 
>> explains the real problems on concurrency in a conecputal way, 
>> that analyses solutions and used patterns for solving this kind of 
>> problems. So, i'm not looking for a pthread manual, or a 
>> "Concurent Programming In Java" book.
>>
>>  Any ideias or suggestions? "Principles of Concurrent and 
>> Distributed Programming" by Prentice Hall looks good, but it's a 
>> bit oldie (although the concepts should be the same).
>>
>>  Thanks in advance
>>
>> Miguel Arroz
>>

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