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The Brisk Project: Concurrent and Distributed Functional Systems (1995)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Holyer, Ian Davis, Neil Dornan, Chris Davies, Neil |
| Abstract | The Brisk project has been set up to investigate the possibility of extending the expressive power of pure functional languages. The aim is to be able to build concurrent and distributed working environments completely functionally, reversing the usual situation in which functional programs are regarded as guests within a procedural environment. This paper gives an overview of the project. The Bristol Haskell System, or Brisk for short, is based on a compiler for the Haskell functional programming language which is used to provide practical support for this research, and to demonstrate its results. The compiler adds a purely deterministic form of concurrency to Haskell in order to improve support for interactive and distributed programming. This has been used, for example, to build an interface to the X window system. Features have also been added to support the dynamic loading and migration of code. This allows for a purely functional implementation of long-lived shell programs which ... |
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| Publisher Date | 1995-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Bristol Haskell System Dynamic Loading Distributed Programming Practical Support Window System Usual Situation Expressive Power Long-lived Shell Program Distributed Functional System Functional Program Pure Functional Language Deterministic Form Haskell Functional Programming Language Purely Functional Implementation Brisk Project Procedural Environment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
