It's the most practical technolgy I've seen for building large distributed applications. Threads , an M3 newsletter. This is a nifty object-oriented scripting language. Kinda like Modula-3 meets perl. An Obliq computation may involve multiple threads of control within an address space, multiple address spaces on a machine, heterogeneous machines over a local network, and multiple networks over the Internet.
Obliq objects have state and are local to a site.
Obliq computations can roam over the network, while maintaining network connections. We want to take over the world. The internet badly needs a public domain software environment that allows the rapid construction of software tools using a modern programming language. Our goal is to build such a system using Scheme 48, an ultra-portable Scheme implementation which is easily interfaced to existing software written in other languages. 2.8.1.2 is goofy.