| K.S. Booth, J. Schaeffer, and W.M. Gentleman, "Anthropomorphic Programming," CS- 4 82-47, University of Waterloo, Computer Science Dep't, Waterloo, Ontario, February 1984. |
....the state information that the system must retain is very small. Tasks communicate and synchronize using the blocking Send, blocking Receive, non blocking Try Receive, and nonblocking Reply message passing primitives. Programs in Harmony rely on the principles of anthropomorphic programming [Booth 84] In particular, human like characteristics are often applied to tasks to assist in finding the natural parallelism inherent in the problem and to help in describing the duties of a particular task. Administrators, servers, clients, workers, couriers, notifiers, and secretaries are all commonly ....
K.S. Booth, J. Schaeffer, and W.M. Gentleman, "Anthropomorphic Programming," CS- 4 82-47, University of Waterloo, Computer Science Dep't, Waterloo, Ontario, February 1984.
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