Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Seems like a conceptually simple model.

That was the idea. Sort of like Lambda calculus - very simple, easy to prove 
things about with the right formalisms. Then it turned into products.

> I would suggest that sending a channel over a channel is probably 
> trivial, but sending a channel over a socket is probably *highly* 
> complex...

Could be, could be. But you can conceptually make it work without breaking 
the language.

> Well, now I guess I understand why everybody gets so excited about 
> Haskell's concurrency support then. :-}

That's part of it.

> It's supposedly one of the big plus points of Java - not that I have 
> *ever* seen *any* Java program which actually supports plugins, mind you...

At the time Java did it, it was rather new. Nowadays, Java's mechanisms are 
fairly lame compared to the competition.

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