🚀 go-pugleaf

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Paul Morrison would say:
>I'd like to refer you to my book "Flow-Based Programming" (van Nostrand
>Reinhold, 1994), which describes a fundamentally different and highly
>productive approach to CBD, based on the concept of asynchronous
>processes or threads communicating via streams of data objects
>travelling across finite-capacity connections.  I have put up a home
>page on this at http://www.e-smith.org/people/paul/fbp.  My book
>describes a number of the problems in getting an organization to move to
>CBD, possible solutions, and our experience with these concepts over a
>span of almost 30 years. 
>
>A colleague has recently built an implementation of these concepts in
>Java that suggests that Java and FBP are highly complementary.  Many of
>the advanced software solutions being worked on today require
>asynchronous processing, extremely high throughput, configurability and
>general-purpose code.  These requirements appear to be very well
>supported by the combination of FBP and Java.  Before the end of this
>year I hope to be able to report on our experience with this new
>technology!

This sure sounds a lot like Lisp Streams:
<http://www.xanalys.com/software_tools/reference/lwu41/climuser/GUID_340.HTM>
<http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/simon/Gcl/gcl_1148.html>
<http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/manuals/scheme/scheme_100.html>
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Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you down the
the bridge.  Call that job satisfaction?  'Cos I don't.
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