Parallel programming paper

[Edward Diener]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Has anyone heard of this?:
> 
> Erasmus: A Modular Language for Concurrent Programming
> http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~grogono/Erasmus/E01.pdf
> 
> I haven't really read it all the way through but it was mentioned on 
> another list I'm on.  Sounds a lot like Erlang to me at first glance. 
> But I don't really know Erlang. :-)
> 
> May be interesting food for thought.

Why people write articles without defining basic terminology, as if like 
Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland" words should mean whatever they 
determine them to mean, is a mystery to me.

Reading a number of pages in the article, relating to OOP versus 
"processes", no definition of the latter term was even given ! Because 
of that I gave it a D- and quit.

What is really needed is a university whose sole purpose is to teach 
computer programmers how to write discursive essays. Those who appear to 
be the most talented often have no clue.