"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote on 20/07/2006 05:08:35: > Strangely enough, I don't recall ever seeing a *real* programming > language, to be distinguished from academic ones, that ever handled > parallelism in a manner other than as calls to run-time libraries. Ruby > already has that. > > Well, actually, there was *one* ... Occam for the Transputer. Some > companies actually built products around this, although they were not > economically viable. Ruby seems to be too well established for it to > suffer this unhappy fate. I spent some great years programming the Transputer in OCCAM commercially. It would be good to see some ideas from CSP in Ruby... Alex.