Paper Info
Title
On function languages and parallel computers
Abstract
This paper is a discussion of functional languages and parallel computers. It is aimed at an audience that has a background in computer architecture, but not necessarily in the area of functional languages. It therefore constitutes an introductory survey of functional languages, on the one hand, and a non-introductory discussion of parallel computers, on the other. The aim is to highlight some important issues regarding the use of adequacy of these languages and also on the design of parallel computers to interpret them. The concluding thesis of put forth is twofold: one, that to widen their scope of applicability, functional languages need to include more features of nondeterminism and may need to be integrated with features from conventional languages; two, that the right sort of architectures for such extended languages may well be less-specialised ones with a von Neumann flavour.
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1016/0167-739X(91)90005-I
Future Generation Computer Systems
Field
DocType
Volume
Fifth-generation programming language,Second-generation programming language,Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages,Programming language,Functional programming,Computer science,Interlinguistics,Third-generation programming language,Von Neumann architecture,Distributed computing,Ontology language
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0167-739X
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.91
16
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amos R. Omondi1173.88