eighty-twenty

Another small thought on the topic of control in distributed systems: One of the first libraries people build on top of object-oriented languages is the observer/observable change-notification pattern. I think this is interesting. Object-oriented languages provide linguistic support for control-flow based on unicast message passing to a single receiver (glossing over the slight variation on the theme provided by multiple-dispatch-based languages), but I’m not aware of languages directly supporting message multicast, broadcast or anycast messaging.