2020-07-10T16:25:05+12:00 http://bluishcoder.co.nz/ Bluishcoder admin@bluishcoder.co.nz 2007-09-17T01:38:00+12:00 http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/09/17/vodka-interesting-concurrent-language <p><a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2444">Recently on Lambda the Ultimate</a> there was an announcement about the <a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/">Vodka programming language</a>. The language is a masters thesis project by Tiark Rompf and has some interesting ideas.</p> <p>It is designed to be a concurrency oriented language, based on the ideas of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_calculus">Join Calculus</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net">Petri Nets</a>. It has multimethod dispatch (like CLOS, Dylan and Nice), generators and many interesting features of other languages can be implemented as libraries.</p> <p>The Vodka web site has some examples:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutBankaccount.html">Mutable State and Transactions"</a></li> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutGenerators.html">Generators</a></li> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutHttpd.html">Web Applications</a></li> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutPhilo.html">Dining Philosophers</a></li> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutSwing.html">Declarative GUIs</a></li> <li><a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/tutGlutmech.html">Walking Robot</a></li> </ul> <p>The language itself is explained in Tiark's <a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/files/thesis_rompf_070618.pdf">thesis document</a> and a reference implementation is in an <a href="http://vodka.nachtlicht-media.de/source-repository.html">SVN repository</a>. There is a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/vodka-discuss">discussion group</a> about it at google groups.</p>