Re: Event based language, does it exist?

Dan Cohen <dancohen@nospam.canuck.com>
2 Sep 2000 16:17:01 -0400

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From: Dan Cohen <dancohen@nospam.canuck.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.misc
Date: 2 Sep 2000 16:17:01 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 00-08-132
Keywords: design

In 1986, I interviewed a company in Markham Ontario that was developing
its own better-than-Unix computer. The hardware (!!!) was strictly
event-driven, and the software (at the API level) was simulated
event-based. I'm sorry but I forget the company name, and they're not
there anymore.


I didn't get the chance to join their team, so I wasn't allowed to see
the language design.


So, Per, it's been done before. I think it's a good idea. Maybe somebody
out there knows about this?


  -- Dan Cohen in Calgary




Per Olesen wrote:
> I'm trying to find a language which is based solely on events, but I
> do not know if it exists. What I do know is, that there is a whole lot
> of languages out there, so it should be strange if there isn't an
> event based one :-)


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