What are the so-called "levels" of understanding multithreading?
- by Dan Tao
I seem to remember reading somewhere some list of 4 "levels" of understanding multithreading. This may have been in a formal publication, or it may have been in an extremely informal context (even like in a Stack Overflow question, for example). Unfortunately I don't remember who referred to them or precisely what they were.
I seem to recall that they were roughly like:
Total ignorance
Awareness mixed with incompetence
Relative competence mixed with fear
True understanding
My intention is to refer to these levels in a blog post I'm writing, with a reference; but I can't for the life of me remember where I first encountered this list. Brief Google searches have proved unfruitful.
