MultiLisp


MultiLisp

(language)A parallel extension of Scheme with explicitconcurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a"future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When theevaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be thevalue.

["MultiLisp: A Language for Concurrent Symbolic Computation",R. Halstead, TOPLAS pp.501-538 (Oct 1985)].