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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: RFD: Programming Language Feature Matrix
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Another feature set to consider is concurrency.
The listed features were certainly oriented to command-line
system scripting languages, and, considering that most such
programs run on networked machines, it's high time a system
shell language allowed concurrency.  Running one program on
multiple machines at once would be wonderful.

semaphore "S"

broadcastport "F" ownedby "ftp"

on "dancer.reindeer" as "ftp"
	P S
	V S
	generate data | sendto "F" 
no


on "blitzen.reindeer" as "ftp"
	P S
	readfrom "F"
	V S
no

Yes, you need an automated security checker, and other stuff,
but it would make system administration much simpler.
-- 

Lance Norskog
thinman@netcom.com
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