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Concurrency Features for the Trellis/Owl Language

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ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1987)

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Trellis/Owl is an object oriented programming language being developed as part of the Trellis programming environment by the Object Based Systems group within Corporate Research and Architecture at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Hudson, MA facility. Trellis/Owl incorporates support for concurrency. Here we describe the high level language features designed, the rationale for that design, the implementation techniques used, the principles behind them, and experience with the resulting system to date. We show how the object oriented nature of Trellis/Owl influenced the design, and how it affected the implementation.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003

    J. Eliot B. Moss

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003

    Walter H. Kohler

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique, LIB, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6, avenue V. le Gorgeu, F-29287, Brest Cédex, France

    Jean Bézivin

  2. 54, avenue des Gressets, F-92700, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France

    Jean-Marie Hullot

  3. Rank Xerox France, DRBI, 12, place de l’Iris, F-92071, La Défense, Cedex 38, France

    Pierre Cointe

  4. The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545, Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Henry Lieberman

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Moss, J.E.B., Kohler, W.H. (1987). Concurrency Features for the Trellis/Owl Language. In: Bézivin, J., Hullot, JM., Cointe, P., Lieberman, H. (eds) ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47891-4_16

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