[Gardeners] SSC-Spec & Bordeaux-Threads, was Re: Shared State Concurrency specification.

[Marco Monteiro]

Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> Ok.  That will be good.
> 
> There remain the second problem: what kind of hope do you have to get 
> most implementors on board?  And that includes the commercial ones?

Here is my plan: Get a good, implementable, draft document of the 
possible specification. (To this end, to have an idea of what is 
implementable, I'm working on an implementation for SBCL.) After that, 
get people beating it to shape so that is acceptable to [almost] all 
implementors, including commercial ones. I'm also trying to get some 
weight behind SSC (maybe one or two big names), before approaching the 
commercial implementations, mainly because nobody knows me.

Perhaps this is not a good plan and the work I am doing right now is 
going to be wasted, but I don't know if it would work better if I sent 
an email to each implementor and try convince them to write the 
specification. I really think that if we have a decent document to start 
from, it will be easier. Of course that this first document I'm talking 
about can be completely changed later on; it will not hurt my feelings. 
The implementors will make the specification. I'm just doing the best I 
can in trying to start the train moving.

Marco