Rob Pike on Concurrency and Message passing in Newsqueak"I have a mind like a steel... uh... thingy." Patrick Logan's weblog. Rob Pike and Luca Cardelli created a simple, concurrent language called Squeak (not to be confused with Squeak Smalltalk) for simplifying programming user interfaces. Pike then turned that into Newsqueak, a more complete programming language. (See "Squinting at Power Series", (pdf)). Newsqueak has processes like Erlang. But inst
