This is "concurrent" in the increasingly common Erlang sense of the word: "The real world is ’concurrent’. It is made up of a bunch of things (or actors) that

This is "concurrent" in the increasingly common Erlang sense of the word: "The real world is ’concurrent’. It is made up of a bunch of things (or actors) that interact with each other ina loosely coupled way with limited knowledge of each other." -- Grant Olson "Why Stackless" 2006 "Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which programs are designed as collections of interacting computational processes that may be executed in parallel." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_computing