Visual Basic or C++

[SledDog]

Originally posted by inferno
Instead of all the definations & stuff youve asked, I ask you "formally educated" guys just to code a program to solve the Dining Philosophers Problem (without copying it from somewhere).

LOL Like whether to call Dominos or Pizza Hut...?

[inferno]

LOL! Naah thatd be too dificult.

Teh Dining Philosophers problem is actually a synchronization prob. Say 5 number philosophers are sitting @ a circular table... and we assume that the only two actions they can do is eat and think (replace with mod and think for ps2 fanatics) Between each phil, there is a single stick, & in order to have some chow, he must have both the sticks. each phil can pick up one fork @ a time. each attemps left one first , then right. When he is stuffed, he puts down the fork & starts to think. The problem arises that since there are not nuff forks, all of em cant stuff themselves @ once.

SO you have to get a algorithm so that none of them get stuck & none of em starve... or calculate the time spent eating & thinking...

Simple logic & reasoning will solve this prob.

Contradictions like when the heck do the philosophers shit r discarded.

[ThAD0oD]

what the hell are you talking about?



just get a big reverse-vaccumm cleaner, and blow all the food at them