Erlang provides one of the only modern implementations of the actors model, a shared-nothing approach to concurrency that can be used on a parallel (i.e. multicore) machine or in a distributed environment. The erlang-in-lisp project aims to bring these ideas to Common Lisp by drawing on previous work including:
erlang-in-lisp is being funded by the 2008 Google Summer of Code with student Matt Bone and mentor François-René Rideau. Click here to see the original proposal.
Consult Matt Bone's blog.
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