From: PA <petite.abeille@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T22:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod


On Jan 16, 2005, at 14:20, Jim Menard wrote:

> "Io [http//www.iolanguage.com] uses actors and transparent futures for 
> concurrency. An actor can be thought of as an object oriented thread. 
> ... When an object receives an asynchronous message it puts the 
> message in its queue and, if it doesn't already have one, starts a 
> light weight thread (a coroutine) to process the messages in its 
> queue. Queued messages are processed sequentially in a 
> first-in-first-out order. Control can be yielded to other coroutines 
> by calling 'yield'."

Not as fancy, but perhaps more practical: IUP (aka Portable User 
Interface).

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/prod.html

Cheers

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