If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.