Liskov, B.; Shrira, L. "Promises: linguistic support for efficient asynchronous procedure calls in distributed systems" pp260-267

[SIGPLAN] (1988) SIGPLAN Notices 23(07) July 1988 (Proceedings of the SIGPLAN'88 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation, June 20-24, 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States)  

Languages mentioned Argus {1983} Concurrent CLU