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Lambda Goes to Hollywood

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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2003)

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In this paper, some experiences of using the concurrent functional language Erlang to implement a distributed video-on-demand server are presented. This server is the result of a project supported by a regional cable company, and it is intended to provide services for real users in the real world. The nature of the problem, with fuzzy and changing requirements, suggests a highly flexible and scalable architecture. The use of abstractions (functional patterns) and compositionality (both functional and concurrent composition) have been key factors to reduce the amount of time spent adapting the system to changes in requirements. Despite our initial concerns, efficiency constraints have been succesfully met.

Partially supported by CICyT TIC 2002-02859 and Xunta de Galicia PR425M

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  1. LFCIA, Department of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, SPAIN

    Victor M. Gulias, Carlos Abalde & Juan J. Sanchez

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  2. Avaya Labs, 233 Mount Airy Road, Basking Ridge, 07920, NJ, USA

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Gulias, V.M., Abalde, C., Sanchez, J.J. (2003). Lambda Goes to Hollywood. In: Dahl, V., Wadler, P. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36388-2_26

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