Disco

From espians

Distribute Concurrency (DISCO) is one of the key elements of the Plexnet.

Influences

Whilst Disco was conceived independently, post-conceptual research led to similarities to many existing systems being discovered and ideas/terms have retrospectively been adapted from the following places:

• Actors model
• Alice's futures/promises
• Cecil's predicate dispatch
• Concurrent Haskell's STM
• Dylan's generic functions
• E's capabilities and eventual send
• Eiffel's design by contract
• Erlang's processes, migration and pattern matching
• FBP (flow-based programming)
• Haskell's monads and lazy evaluation
• Java's interfaces
• Lisp's common lisp object system (clos) + cells
• Ocaml's pattern matching
• Oz's constraints + data flow
• Phenotropics' pattern matching/membrane
• Scheme's CSP
• Self's prototyping
• Smalltalk's message passing
• Unix's simplicity

• Lambda calculus
• Join calculus
• Pi calculus
• Kell calculus

• PEAK
• Twisted
• Kamaelia
• Asyncore