Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I must admit, I'm not sure what this even means. Might be interesting 
> though.

CSP. A bunch of actors running around exchanging messages asynchronously, 
each process being a single thread in its own address space. Like Erlang or 
any of the other dozens of languages designed for real-time distributed 
processing.

That the channel itself is a first class object makes for the ability to do 
cool stuff like passing the channel to a new version of the program running 
on a different computer, so you don't lose any outstanding messages. 
Assuming they really mean "first class" there.

> Lots of languages have light-weight threads, no?

Many have lightweight threads that also occupy multiple processors. I.e., 
most languages where you can launch 10,000 threads launch them in one 
process and fake it 100%.

But yes, the availability of lightweight objects and first-class channels is 
a good combination. Either one alone is difficult.

I'll have to see what kind of introspection they support and what kind of 
dynamic loading.

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