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Programming-Idioms

  • Erlang
  • C#

Idiom #45 Pause execution for 5 seconds

Sleep for 5 seconds in current thread, before proceeding with the next instructions.

The pedestrian walks, then stays still for 5 seconds, then resumes walking
using System.Threading;
Thread.Sleep(5000);

Takes an int value representing milliseconds.
System.Threading.Tasks;
Task.Delay(5000);
timer:sleep(5000).
delay 5.0;

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