>>> Well, they tried making STM work on .NET and gave up because of all the
>>> state, if you remember.
>>
>> They gave up because they tried to make all the existing state mutation
>> stuff still work in the presence of transactions, which is /obviously/
>> impossible.
>
> That's my point. How useful would it be if you couldn't actually use any
> of the other .NET libraries, including even I/O, reflection, etc.?

You do all of that stuff from /outside/ your transactions, that's all. 
Remember, transactions are only for thread communication. You start a 
transaction, fetch the next work item from the shared work queue, and 
the transaction. Then you process the work item, calling whatever 
libraries you need. Simples.

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