---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:51:46 -0800 From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> To: coderpunks@toad.com Subject: RE: Distributed code At 8:14 PM -0800 11/4/01, Tim Ebringer wrote:

You might want to check out Erlang http://www.erlang.org - a programming language designed to be all about communications and concurrency. Programs in this language need not even be aware that they're distributed. It's a functional language, though, so you might be up for a steep learning curve if you've never used a declarative language (Miranda, Haskell, Mercury, Prolog, Lisp...)

You might also want to check out the E language <http://www.erights.org/>. It offers distributed computation, encrypted communications, public key based identity, optimistic computation, and event loop concurency. Cheers - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA/SDMI is to prevent| 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@pwpconsult.com | fair use. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA