Stackless goes Limbo

[Andrew Henshaw]

Christian Tismer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> after some time of consideration,
> I have decided to move the interface to Stackless
> Python's multitasking towards the ideas behind
> the Limbo Language.
> 
> Besides the tasklets, there are "channel" objects,
> which allow for communication between tasklets.
> This approach is simple and powerful. Blocking of
> tasklets takes place on writes when no tasklet
> is listening, or on reads, when no data is available.
> 
> There is some nice introduction to Limbo at
> http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html
> written by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the inventors
> of the C language.
> 
> I hope to have a prototype ready by end of April.
> 
> See the stackless homepage for more news,
> including the new sponsorship honor page at:
> 
> <http://www.stackless.com/>
> 
While you're at it, you might want to look at Occam.  In my opinion, no 
language handles channels as nicely as Occam.  [Sigh] PAR and ALT would 
look so nice as Python keywords...

Good luck!

Andrew Henshaw