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From: turner@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Steve Turner)
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Subject: Re: Distributed/Asynchronous OO Software
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There has been a *lot* of work on concurrent OO programing and
languages.  I would suggest that you look into:

Gul Agha's work  with Actors (sorry no reference handy)

Andrew Chien's PhD thesis from MIT (finished this year, I think in June),

"Object-oriented concurrent programming" edited by Akinori Yonezawa
and Mario Tokoro. from MIT Press, c1987 ocm14-719682.

These all fall into a single "school" of approaches to OO concurrency,
since they all (more or less) derive from the Actor model proposed by
Agha.   I would be interested to hear about any other separate schools
of thought that someone may have a reference to.

Of course, a perusal of recent OOPSLA and ECOOP proceedings would
probably turn up a few...
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