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History
20 related topics
Applications
5 related topics
Read-only views
9 related topics
Implicit vs. explicit
6 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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Overview
- Computer science
- Synchronizing Synchronization (computer science)
- Execution Execution (computing)
- Concurrent programming languages Concurrent programming language
- Computation
- Daniel P. Friedman
- Henry Baker Henry Baker (computer scientist)
- Carl Hewitt
- Single assignment
Applications
Implicit vs. explicit
- Reference Reference (programming)
- Java Java (programming language)
- Actor model
- Object-oriented programming
- Smalltalk
- Message passing
Promise pipelining
- Latency Latency (engineering)
- Joule Joule (programming language)
- Argus Argus (programming language)
- Remote procedure calls Remote procedure call
Read-only views
- Oz Oz (programming language)
- AmbientTalk
- C++11
- C++26
- Dojo Toolkit
- Alice ML
- .NET
- Principle of least privilege
- Subjects Subject (access control)
Thread-specific futures
Blocking vs non-blocking semantics
- Exception Exception (computer science)
- Race conditions
Related constructs
- Synchronization primitive
- Events Event (synchronization primitive)
- Id Id (programming language)
- Data structure
- Unification Unification (computing)
- Constraint logic programming
Evaluation strategy
History
- MultiLisp
- Concurrent Concurrency (computer science)
- Prolog
- Horn clauses Horn clause
- Parlog
- Strand Strand (programming language)
- Vulcan Vulcan (programming language)
- Janus Janus (concurrent constraint programming language)
- Flow Java
- Dataflow programming
- Concurrent ML
- Barbara Liskov
- Liuba Shrira
- Mark S. Miller
- Project Xanadu
- First-class First-class value
- Responsiveness
- Web development
- Request–response
- Async/await
Coroutines
- Coroutines Coroutine
- Generators Generator (computer programming)
- Cooperative multitasking
Channels
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Futures and promises
Nodes88
Edges87
Triples73
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022727
Components1
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Futures and promises
Top relations
related to List of library-based implementations of futures · 61
Futures and promises → Active Results, AngularJSnode-promiseQ, API, Apple GCDFutureLib, Async, BlackbirdEager Future2lparallelPCallFor, Bluebird, Boost, Built-in, CommonJS Promises/A, Concurrent RubyPromise, Cujo, Deferred, DeferredsFor, Dojo Toolkit, ES6, For Common Lisp, For Java, For Objective-C, For OCaml
has application · 2
Futures and promises → Futures, Later
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Important terminology
promise future value futures promises languages pipelining programming concurrent read-only also example message needed used language return computation implemented support
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oz | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| E | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| and AmbientTalk | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| it is possible to obtain a read-only view of a future | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| which allows reading its value when resolved | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| but does not permit resolving it | instance of | Read-only viewsIn some programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| pure actor languages.However | instance of | This is the only case to be considered in purely asynchronous systems | 0.80 | text |
| in some systems it may also be possible to attempt to immediately or synchronously access a future's value | instance of | This is the only case to be considered in purely asynchronous systems | 0.80 | text |
| MultiLisp | instance of | HistoryThe future and/or promise constructs were first implemented in programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Act 1 | instance of | HistoryThe future and/or promise constructs were first implemented in programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Futures and promises | has application | Futures | 0.60 | section |
| Futures and promises | has application | Later | 0.60 | section |
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