jkn: > FWIW, this looks rather like the 'PAR' construct of Occam to me. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_%28programming_language%29
Earlier than that, 'par' is from Algol 68: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68#par:_Parallel_processing Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
