Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Kurt Stephens: > Many languages do not reify the message itself as an object. > I have been musing lately how the Linda model (tuple spaces) could be helpful. Tuples can be understood as messages sent to an anonymous receiver (whoever does a "get" with a matching signature). One nice analogy is that cell biology works pretty similar to that - proteins and other molecules are built from constituents, flot freely (more or less) in the cytoplasm and cause effects when they bind to a matching site. Of course, programming on this level alone seems pretty tedious - I don't know how well it scales to higher abstraction levels. But it does have some nice practical consequences: - the state of the system is defined by the tuples, so snapshotting and in-place software upgrading is relatively painless - it lends itself well to parallelisation and distribution
Cheers, Hans-Martin _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
