Re: Event based language, does it exist?

cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org (Christopher Browne)
2 Sep 2000 16:17:55 -0400

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From: cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org (Christopher Browne)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.misc
Date: 2 Sep 2000 16:17:55 -0400
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References: 00-08-132
Keywords: design

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Per Olesen would say:
>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 :-)


I would think that you're looking for a language based fully
on continuations; I seem to remember hearing about there being one,
but sadly do not recall the name.


I'd think that looking at functional languages like ML and
Haskell would be pretty worthwhile; having functions more-or-less
isomorphic to events seems fairly plausible...
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