From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T01:58:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Beyond threads? Better concurrency methods?

On 7/20/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Strangely enough, I don't recall ever seeing a *real* programming
> language, to be distinguished from academic ones, that ever handled
> parallelism in a manner other than as calls to run-time libraries. Ruby
> already has that.

There's the Limbo programming language, invented by Rob Pike, Phil
Winterbottom, and some of the other guys responsible for Plan 9, used
in the Inferno operating system [1]. It essentially implements
communicating sequential processes: it incorporates typed
communication channels between processes as a language primitive, and
provides built-in mechanisms for using them for synchronization and
communication. It's an interesting piece of work, and I for one would
like to see Ruby with similar features in the future.

[1] www.vitanuova.com