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In Concurrency-oriented programming Peter Van Roy talks (briefly) about concurrency as a basis for functional programming. I like Python as a multi-paradigm language (sometimes procedural, sometimes OO, sometimes prototype-based, sometimes class... and on it goes). Can some of the techniques of Oz and Erlang also be implemented in Python? (In Stackless?)

I guess that means I'll have to learn Oz or Erlang before I'll know. (Which one?) There seems to be an emphasis on strict functional programming in both, such that the programmer is not only assisted in concurrent programming, but moreso they are forced to do clean concurrent programming. I/O always seems painful in a strictly functional environment, as it is very non-functional; computations are correct, not programs -- but functional and declarative programming tries to hide computation.

Anyway, a direction for further exploration...