Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

[John Cowan]

J?rg F. Wittenberger scripsit:

> Not a few, but they did already.  About 300 years ago.
> 
> And it's partially based on even older knowledge.  Military this time,
> the problem of the byzantine generals. 

The Byzantine Generals problem was invented by Leslie Lamport, a
computer scientist, in 1982 or shortly before that.  See
http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#byz .

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