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In recent posts, you've found that I've been harping on immutability and side effect free functions. There is a general theme emerging from this and some real reasons why I'm pointing it out. One of the things that I'm interested in is concurrent programming on the .NET platform for messaging applications. As we see more and more cores and processors available to us, we need to be cognizant of this fact as we're designing and writing our applications. Most programs we write today are pretty linear in nature, except for say forms applications which use background worker threads to not freeze the user interface. But for the most part, we're not taking full advantage of the CPU and its cycles. We need not only a better way to handle concurrency, but a better way to describe them as well. This is where Pi-calculus comes into the picture... But before we get down that beaten path, let's look at a few options that I chose. Not that these aren't all of them, just a select few I chose to analyze.