On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Lawson English wrote:
As usual, Qqueak gets there first, and then doesn't do anything interesting (for the masses), while other languages tout the "next big thing" without even knowing much about the history: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/#future-objects
Futures/promises are definitely popular these days, but they weren't pioneered in Croquet. Barbara Liskov typically gets the credit: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=54016
Cheers, Josh
Lawson
On 12/7/10 2:00 AM, Lawson English wrote:
On 12/6/10 6:49 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
Speaking of...
On 2010-12-06 6:35 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
tea-time
..., has it ever been pulled out into a form where it can be used separately from the rest of Croquet? I'd love to see it easily loadable into Smalltalk. Is there a tutorial on just using TeaTime on its own available anywhere?
Regards, Tony
Don't I wish.
Lawson