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# What are promises ?
- Future, promise, delay, or deferred.
- Definition
# Historical Background
- Algol thunk
- Incremental garbage collection of Processes - 1977
- 1995 Joule channels
- 1997 Mark Miller - E
# Current state of things
- Lot of work done in Javascript
- Scala
- Finagle
- Java8
- ?
# Future Work
- ?
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