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Streams and Iterations in a Single Assignment Language (Sisal) was a general-purpose applicative language developed for shared-memory and vector supercomputer systems. It provided an hierarchical intermediate form, parallel runtime system, optimizing compiler, and programming environment. The language was strongly typed. It supported both array and stream data structures, and had both iterative and parallel loop constructs.
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Streams and Iterations in a Single Assignment Language (Sisal) was a general-purpose applicative language defined by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Colorado Sate University, University of Manchester and Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s [1]. Lawrence Livermore and Colorado State developed the language over the next 2 decades. They maintained the language definition, compiler and runtime system, programming tools, and provided education and user support services. The language version used widely in the 1980s...
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Feo, J. (2011). Sisal. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_118
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