From: benjohn@... Date: 2007-08-20T19:24:22+09:00 Subject: Re: wishing of reactive programming in ruby *snip* > I've always been a partisan of loosely-coupled systems that use > idempotent > messaging. I'm still hopeful that such a thing will come to Ruby. (This > in > fact was precisely the reason that the EventMachine library was > developed, > and it's still on the roadmap.) *snip* If you've got some links you could share about idempotent messaging, I'd like to read them. The hits I'm getting seem to be about interprocess protocol, rather than an approach that you'd also use intraprocess.