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Functional Vs Object-Oriented Distributed Languages

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Conventional distributed programming languages require the programmer to explicitly specify many aspects of distributed coordination, including resource location, task placement, communication and synchronisation. Functional languages aim to provide higher-level abstraction, and this paper investigates the effectiveness of this for distributed co-ordination. The investigation contrasts and compares contrasts Java and two Haskell-based distributed functional languages, Eden and GdH. Three distributed programs are used as case studies, and the performance and programming effort are reported.

Supported by UKés EPSRC (grant GR/M55633), British Council/DAAD (travel grant no. 1097), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (APART 624).

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  1. Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Robert F. Pointon, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl & Phil W. Trinder

  2. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

    Steffen Priebe & Rita Loogen

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  1. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, Campus de Tafira, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Roberto Moreno-Díaz

  2. University of Linz, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, 232, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria

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  3. University ofA Coruña, Facultad de Informática, LFCIA, Dpto. of Computer Science, Campus de Elviña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain

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Pointon, R.F., Priebe, S., Loidl, HW., Loogen, R., Trinder, P.W. (2001). Functional Vs Object-Oriented Distributed Languages. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Buchberger, B., Luis Freire, J. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST 2001. EUROCAST 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45654-6_49

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