New Language

[Andrew Maizels]

pohanl at my-deja.com wrote:

> Well, if you look at most cells in your body, you notice that they have
> a cell wall, and inside contains the DNA and other goodies. Things are
> passed to the cell through the cell wall.  This is very similar to
> passing variables to a component through an
> interface/function.
> 
> This new language would have components with no constraints on values
> passed to it.
> as for the values, instead of being dedicated to a method in a
> component/class/function, it would be placed on a bloodstream/"bus".
> cells/components would grab it when they have appropriate functions
> that can use it.

You seem to be talking about Linda.  Do a web search on "tuple space".

Andrew.
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