I still think that John Reppy's Concurrent ML design is the best thought out way to do non-blocking IO and event handling. There has been a lot of progress on C

I still think that John Reppy's Concurrent ML design is the best thought out way to do non-blocking IO and event handling. There has been a lot of progress on CML but Reppy's 1992 PhD dissertation remains a very readable introduction: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/1992/phd-thesis.html http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/1992/phd-thesis.ht...