Re:Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcal...
by yfyf on Thursday December 20, 2012 @10:15PM
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Sure, theoretical investigations on things begin many years earlier than anyone starts actually using them, but somehow "concurrency" wasn't something available to your everyday Joe back in 60s, right? Multi-core wasn't the norm, there was no elastic cloud, what so on.
And I am not really claiming that software development changed much in 3 years, but I think people's mindsets are changing faster than that, especially of those who are actively involved in thinking about these things.
Also, shared-nothing "architecture" goes back to the 60s with the first investigations into concurrency. In fact, if I were being pedantic, I would say it predates computing itself: logic is all side-effect free.