From: Chet Murthy
Subject: Languages for event-driven programming?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <5qljhq$rd1$1@watnews2.watson.ibm.com>

A while ago, I saw a post from somebody who had designed a language
which was specifically tuned to writing event-driven programs.  They
had support for, essentially, converting code written in a simplified,
procedural, programming language, into event-driven code that would
get dispatched by an event-loop.

They had written HTTP daemons and such, along with other stuff.

I can't for the life of me find the article, nor the website (which
was mentioned in the article).

Anybody out there remember this?

Thanks,
--chet--

• Re: Languages for event-driven programming? Nick Maclaren
• Re: Languages for event-driven programming? Jonas Bülow

From: Nick Maclaren
Subject: Re: Languages for event-driven programming?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <5qqen4$d20@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>

In article <············@watnews2.watson.ibm.com>,
Chet Murthy <····@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>A while ago, I saw a post from somebody who had designed a language
>which was specifically tuned to writing event-driven programs.  They
>had support for, essentially, converting code written in a simplified,
>procedural, programming language, into event-driven code that would
>get dispatched by an event-loop.
>
>They had written HTTP daemons and such, along with other stuff.
>
>I can't for the life of me find the article, nor the website (which
>was mentioned in the article).
>
>Anybody out there remember this?

I am afraid there are dozens.  The question is which of them was described
in that way, rather than which were designed like that.  For example,
that description could be applied to Smalltalk.


Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Email:  ····@cam.ac.uk
Tel.:  +44 1223 334761    Fax:  +44 1223 334679

From: Jonas Bülow
Subject: Re: Languages for event-driven programming?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <ke4bu3wkfmo.fsf@mumrik.nada.kth.se>

····@watson.ibm.com (Chet Murthy) writes:

> A while ago, I saw a post from somebody who had designed a language
> which was specifically tuned to writing event-driven programs.  They
> had support for, essentially, converting code written in a simplified,
> procedural, programming language, into event-driven code that would
> get dispatched by an event-loop.

Erlang?