Generative communication in Linda

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Generative communication in Linda (1985)

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by David Gelernter

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
Citations:	1190 - 2 self

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@ARTICLE{Gelernter85generativecommunication,
    author = {David Gelernter},
    title = {Generative communication in Linda},
    journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
    year = {1985},
    volume = {7},
    pages = {80--112}
}

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Abstract

Generative communication is the basis of a new distributed programming langauge that is intended for systems programming in distributed settings generally and on integrated network computers in particular. It differs from previous interprocess communication models in specifying that messages be added in tuple-structured form to the computation environment, where they exist as named, independent entities until some process chooses to receive them. Generative communication results in a number of distinguishing properties in the new language, Linda, that is built around it. Linda is fully distributed in space and distributed in time; it allows distributed sharing, continuation passing, and structured naming. We discuss these properties and their implications, then give a series of examples. Linda presents novel implementation problems that we discuss in Part II. We are particularly concerned with implementation of the dynamic global name space that the generative communication model requires.

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generative communication generative communication result integrated network computer new language previous interprocess communication model continuation passing process chooses programming langauge independent entity dynamic global name space distributed setting tuple-structured form generative communication model computation environment part ii novel implementation problem

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