Generative communication in Linda

Generative communication in Linda (1985)

by David Gelernter

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
Citations:	840 - 2 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	Generative communication in Linda	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	David Gelernter	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Yale University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Generative communication is the basis of a new distributed programming langauge that is intended for systems programming in distributed settings generally and on integrated network computers in particular. It differs from previous interprocess communication models in specifying that messages be added in tuple-structured form to the computation environment, where they exist as named, independent entities until some process chooses to receive them. Generative communication results in a number of distinguishing properties in the new language, Linda, that is built around it. Linda is fully distributed in space and distributed in time; it allows distributed sharing, continuation passing, and structured naming. We discuss these properties and their implications, then give a series of examples. Linda presents novel implementation problems that we discuss in Part II. We are particularly concerned with implementation of the dynamic global name space that the generative communication model requires.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1985	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	80--112	INFERENCE
VOLUME	7	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	27 found	ParsCit 1.0