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Several languages have been designed and implemented for programming mobile computations. This chapter describes a mobile code language based on extending the popular ML language. The language design, and its implementation, are distinguished by the use of run-time type information for computation. This is intended to motivate the use of run-time types in implementations of languages intended for distributed programming and mobile computations, particularly languages such as ML that provide type polymorphism.
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Duggan, D. (1997). A type-based implementation of a language with distributed scope. In: Vitek, J., Tschudin, C. (eds) Mobile Object Systems Towards the Programmable Internet. MOS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62852-5_20
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