Hi.

You could have a look at Oz, which supports distributed computing:
http://www.mozart-oz.org

Best regards, Micke

On 10/7/06, Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzburg at web.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've seen various attempts to add distributed computing capabilities on top of
> an existing language. For a true distributed system I would expect it to be
> possible to instantiate objects of a remote class or to subclass a remote
> class and other stuff like this. My impression is that those things are
> difficult when built on top of an existing language.
>
> Since the paradigm "everything is an object" pays so well, I thought it might
> be less painful to implement a distributed system from ground up, starting
> with the paradigm: "everything is a distributed object". Maybe languages like
> Erlang and E get close to this paradigm. Other than those I am not aware of
> any attempts to implement distributed computhing in this way (from ground
> up).
>
> Are you aware of any ?
>
> As a sidenote: I have difficulties to understand how Smalltalk works,
> especially the way method calls eventually resolve to primitive calls. I'd be
> most grateful for an explanation the other way round, i.e. starting with the
> primitives and the way the entire system builds up from them.
>
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