Hi Alan, Apropos some of the recent threads:
As I recall, some of the very early Smalltalk versions had a more concurrent view of the world, and inspired Hewitt's work on Actors, as is now perhaps best embodied in Erlang.
It's long occurred to me that I sure would love to have an environment that felt like Smalltalk (say Squeak) but that allowed objects to behave like actors - all the message passing is there, but message/event-driven flow of control isn't. It's always seemed to me that a merger of Smalltalk and an Erlang-like run-time environment would be an interesting direction - but I've yet to see any efforts toward concurrent or distributed smalltalk go very far (well, maybe Croquet qualifies).
I wonder if you might have any comments to offer on why Smalltalk took the path it did re. flow-of-control, and/or future directions.
Regards, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
