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Persistent Oberon: A Programming Language with Integrated Persistence

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This paper presents the programming language Persistent Oberon, which offers persistence as a naturally inbuilt concept. Program data is automatically kept durable and stored in non-volatile memory, without the programmer having to write explicit code for the interactions with an external database system. In the case of a system interruption or failure, the program can directly continue from its latest consistent state. In contrast to other existent persistent programming languages, this language does not need any artificial programming interfaces or commands to use persistence. The programming language is completely implemented and offers a high scalability and performance.

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Bläser, L. (2007). Persistent Oberon: A Programming Language with Integrated Persistence. In: Shao, Z. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76637-7_6

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