Distributed code (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:51:46 -0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com>
To: coderpunks at 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


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