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Why be so protective? Perhaps somebody invents some programming tool that makes it easy to reason about shared state. This is exactly the kind of mind-set that makes it difficult to develop for the web.

Also, shared immutable state is a useful (often perhaps even essential) property for building efficient code in a multithreaded environment, even when using the message-passing style.



Tastes differ. I don't have any problem with erring on the side of overprotectiveness when it comes to multithreaded programming.




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