scwm - I recall vaguely. Kon Wrote:
> > But probably I'm sold because I'm biased anyway. Could someone > > please > > tell me, what the difference between cells, termite and askemos is? > > Cells is a constraint propagation system for CLOS (spreadsheet-style > programming). Termite is Erlang in Scheme. Askemos is a trusted/ > reliable distributed computing framework. Only Termite & Askemos > could be considered in a similar category. Except that - it struck me, when I read this cell stuff. Because there's exactly the same mechanism to propagate updates. When I compare them, I don't compare so much on the category or purpose. I compare the computational model. This is the same for cells, FPGA's, spreadsheets, Termite, Erlang, iO (http://www.iolanguage.com) and whatnot. Cells/Objects carry properties, updates tightly controlled, messages propagate updates, data flow driven (in a way at least). I ways simillarities don't surprise me: a) Michael Haard once (~94) wrote a spreadsheet called "teapot". At my request he added some capability to compute "stepwise updates". We wrote a game of life with it. Why my request? I've been busy at that time experimenting with FPGA's. I wanted some modelling tool. b) That FPGS's experience had a lot of influence at the Askemos design (because I had learned that it allows to parallelise algorithms up to the point that a matrix multiplication on a stream can be done at O(1) amortised time). So no wonder that this cellular structure persisted. c) One of my early experiments where done using FramerD. What I've been missing there was the ability to put slot-updates under formula control. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
