Everything is a distributed object
Martin Drautzburg
Martin.Drautzburg at web.de
Sat Oct 7 19:41:07 UTC 2006
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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