modern languages --- all of which have some kind of anonymous function and some approximation of closures --- allow us to write evented code that looks and feel

modern languages --- all of which have some kind of anonymous function and some approximation of closures --- allow us to write evented code that looks and feels like straight-line code Not getting at you, but I'd question the idea that writing code for distributed systems which looks and feels just like code for a single machine is desirable. My gut says the righteous path looks much more like Erlang, treating concurrent programming as a paradigm in its own right and leaving implementation details up to the compiler.