On 12/7/2010 10:36 PM, Lawson English wrote:
> Wikipedia says goes back even further than that:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
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> However, what was (or is) using them as a core aspect of the framework
> besides Croquet/Cobalt?

E (www.erights.org). Croquet future messages are precisely modeled after 
E's eventual send semantics.

> Nothing gets shared in Croquet without using the future message and the
> ability to create things without sharing is relatively new, I thought.

It's not. The idea goes back to the 70s. However, it only became 
practical with the internet and with promise pipelining. I believe the 
latter was pioneered at Electric Communities.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> On 12/7/10 10:51 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Lawson English wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> Lawson
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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...
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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