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On 8/30/07, brenton.leanhardt / gmail.com <brenton.leanhardt / gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have no experience with other tuplespace implementations but I've
> heard it was originally based off a java project called Linda.
> Playing around with Rinda actually helped me in understanding Erlang's
> process 'mail boxes', which I find quite similar.
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Linda and Lindaspaces long predate Java. There's actually a rigorous and
sophisticated mathematical foundation for them, and a long history of
pre-Java implementations, including some of my own from perhaps a dozen
years ago.

If you're interested in Erlang-like "spawned processes" for Ruby, they were
just added to EventMachine. Sync to the head revision and look at the test
cases. As soon as they get a few more features and documentation, they'll be
released. There's also some recent discussion of them on the EventMachine
mailing list.

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