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My future perfect "cloud" language has grammar for idioms like queues and counters. Ditto pubsub, logging, metrics.

And structured concurrency. Not async/await, promises, and so forth.

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Along the lines of "we were promised jetpacks", I'm still stuck on 1990s era future perfect notions like software agents and grid computing. Like the cloudlet (vs applet, servlet) manifestation of Sun Computer's Jini and JXTA.

parent specialist 3 years ago

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