I don't think that writing a threaded poller in C would be trying to duplicate the features of Erlang. Epoll / kqueue (and historically, poll/select) are in c,

I don't think that writing a threaded poller in C would be trying to duplicate the features of Erlang. Epoll / kqueue (and historically, poll/select) are in c, made to be used with C. That being said, the 283 lines of 37S application code is impressive to me. It would be fun if they opened up this bit of infrastructure (or at least its functional spec) so we could add it to the programming language shootout. To save you the googling: "GreenSpunning is the ad hoc implementation of domain-independent language features in a language which lacks the feature; it can range from a simple one-line function or macro to the canonical description of GreenSpunning: a "half-assed implementation of half of CommonLisp''. " http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?LevelsOfGreenspunning http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?LevelsOfGreenspunning