Well, that's not quite fair. See for instance Baker & Hewitt's "The 
Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", from 1977, which talks 
about futures. (And has references to lots of other people's work.)

Squeak has futures nowadays of course, thanks to Teleplace.

Unless you mean that David Reed's thesis (1978, "Naming and 
Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System") was written by 
someone in the Smalltalk community?

frank

On 2010/12/08 00:21, 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
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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...
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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?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
>> Don't I wish.
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