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Distributed and object oriented symbolic programming in April

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Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation (OBPDC 1995)

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce key features of a programming language for building DAI and other types of distributed applications requiring the transmission and manipulation of complex symbolic data. Key features of the language that we will illustrate are:

  1. 1.

    publically named processes,

  2. 2.

    process identifiers as data values,

  3. 3.

    higher-order structure,

  4. 4.

    an operator precedence grammar,

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    a macro processor that works at the level of the syntax of the language.

The first two features enable one to build an environment of public servers, available to any April process simply by using its name, which can return as the response to a enquiry the identification of a non-public process. The last two allow one to tailor the syntax of the language for a particular application. We shall illustrate syntactic tailoring by showing how a simple object oriented extension of April can be implemented.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London, England

    K. L. Clark

  2. FUJITSU Laboratories ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

    F. G. McCabe

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Jean-Pierre Briot Jean-Marc Geib Akinori Yonezawa

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Clark, K.L., McCabe, F.G. (1996). Distributed and object oriented symbolic programming in April. In: Briot, JP., Geib, JM., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation. OBPDC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61487-7_24

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