Termite: a Lisp for Distributed Computing, via Adam:
> In short: take Scheme, remove mutations, add isolated processes with mailboxes, add message sending and receiving operations and an addressing mechanism.
The bottom line is Termite is Erlang's distributed concurrency model ported to a dialect of Scheme that has been pared back to something like the sequential aspects of the Erlang language (chapters from Erlang book PDF).
Included in Termite are continuations that can support distributed process migration and macros. Continuations, macros, and closures allow Termite to be more amenable to discovering new abstractions than Erlang.
Thursday, August 4, 2005
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