"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.