Bassline synthesizes ideas from multiple traditions:

• Propagation Networks (Radul & Sussman, MIT) — The insight that computation is about accumulating partial information in cells, not transforming complete inputs to outputs.
• CRDT's and Lattices (Shapiro et al.) — Combining distributed data structures with monotonic writes.
• Smalltalk & Live Systems — The philosophy that systems should be inspectable, modifiable, and self-describing at runtime.
• Bloom Language (Berkeley) — Monotonic logic programming that showed how lattices can be the basis for distributed computation.