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From: Lucio De Re lucio@proxima.alt.za
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 future (Was: Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?)
Date: Mon,  8 May 2000 13:45:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000508134507.eJjqAy_WgOH5ZVzIPnBIl9IUeqS_3pT4TfzoJt7-J1M@z> (raw)

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:37:24PM +0200, Borja Marcos wrote:
>
> > Does this mean Plan 9 peoples abandoned concurrent programming, and
> > joined to the ordinal threading scheme?  I'd like to know the reason...
>
> 	Concurrent programming can be done even in assembler.
> Alef is a "concurrent language" because it is concurrency-friendly,
> but concurrent programming can be done in C without the help of the
> language syntax.
>
Yes, I've seen it done using setjmp/longjmp constructs, which is
really not elegant.  Alef provided a lot of really slick facilities.

Maybe it is possible to release the Alef port to Irix under Open
Source?  I have a feeling that releasing Alef in this manner may
well have a deep effect on open source developments (it would no
doubt be bastardised into Alef++ and so on, but I really haven't
found anything that addresses concurrent programming as elegantly
as Alef/Limbo do).

And, while I'm on the subject, where did Acme go?  It had a lot of
potential, most of it still waiting to be discovered.

++L




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