Multi Lisp

A concurrent dialect of SchemeLanguage, described in:

• Robert Halstead
• Multilisp: A language for concurrent symbolic computation.
• TOPLAS, 7(4), 1985.
• <http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~zw4j/cs656/p501-halstead.pdf>
• <http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/100010/0>

Multilisp is the language that introduced FutureValues. It supports only SharedStateConcurrency, unlike some other languages with futures/promises (such as EeLanguage and JouleLanguage) that support MessagePassingConcurrency. The paper referenced above argues against MessagePassingConcurrency, but its arguments are weak and do not apply to Joule or E.

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