Would be cool if it would incorporate some thinking and concepts from Flow-based programming [1], as that is AFAIK the most comprehensive architecture covering

Would be cool if it would incorporate some thinking and concepts from Flow-based programming [1], as that is AFAIK the most comprehensive architecture covering all the aspects of asyncronous concurrent processing that one might run into (multiple in/out-ports, channels with bounded buffers, sub-stream support, etc etc). [1] http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/ http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming