skaller wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:24 -0400, Chris King wrote: > > > Certainly you can do the same thing in Felix, and because Felix > > doesn't have a silly global lock the generator would > actually run in > > parallel with the calling code; what's more, you could > abstract this > > to run across the network... > > > > I think you're on to something good here :) > > Erlang can already do the 'across the network' stuff. > Not perfect I'm told, but it exists. > > It remains to be seen how much of the modelling can be > abstracted with typeclasses .. so for example you can write > process/message passing code which works across network OR > using pthread OR using fibres OR using even plain procedures.
This is a very powerful model. As you say, Erlang does much of this, but mainly in a pragmatic informal way, and also limited to some extent by the suitability of Erlang per se for different problems. In short, Erlang illustrates the power of the model, but it does by no means have a lock on the market. (: This way of programming also seems eminently suited to multicore architectures. A similar line of thinking can be found in Paul Morrison's Flow-Based Programming. http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/ BR, Ulf W ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
