multilisp

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multilisp - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  MultiLisp
  
     <language> A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit
     concurrency.  The form (future X) immediately returns a
     "future", and creates a task to evaluate X.  When the
     evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the
     value.
  
     ["MultiLisp: A Language for Concurrent Symbolic Computation",
     R. Halstead, TOPLAS pp.501-538 (Oct 1985)].
  
     [Did MultiLisp use PVM as its intermediate language?]
  
     (1998-02-10)