Sorry I couldn't make it last night - out of town and didn't remember to bring the mailing list email.
FYI, stuff I'm currently looking at:
FBP (Flow Based Programming) which is directly related to my VF stuff:
An intriguing parallelizing (at the statement level, I think) language which got mentioned in the FBP google group:
http://code.google.com/p/anic/
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