Communicating Event Loops with Promises (was: Understanding capabilities in a web-desktop setting)
"Mark Miller" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark: > > You explain how things should *not* be described, but you have not > clarified for Ben how they *should* be described. > > Can you do so? He needs a term, not a paragraph. Ben has already changed the sentence to "such as built-in support for writing distributed systems and an interesting and useful distributed message ordering paradigm" which sidesteps the issue, as is fine for his paper. As for a single term or phrase for E's and Waterken's concurrency: "communicating event loops with promises". A very interesting new system based on "communicating event loops with promises" is AmbientTalk/2 <http://prog.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/publications/phd_tom_van_cutsem.pdf> <http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop/> <http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/>. They would also like to move this system towards object-capabilities someday. Check it out! -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM