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


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> On 12/7/10 2:00 AM, Lawson English wrote:
>> On 12/6/10 6:49 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
>>> Speaking of...
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>>> On 2010-12-06 6:35 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>>> tea-time
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>>> ..., 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?
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>>> Regards,
>>>  Tony
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>> Don't I wish.
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