Arrays, Functional Languages, and Parallel Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

During a meeting in Toronto last winter, Mike Jenkins, Bob Bernecky and I were discussing how the two existing theories on arrays influenced or were in fluenced by programming languages and systems. More's Army Theory was the basis for NIAL and APL2 and Mullin's A Mathematics of A rmys(MOA), is being used as an algebra of arrays in functional and A-calculus based pro gramming languages. MOA was influenced by Iverson's initial and extended algebra, the foundations for APL and J respectively. We discussed that there is a lot of interest in the Computer Science and Engineering communities concerning formal methods for languages that could support massively parallel operations in scientific computing, a back to-roots interest for both Mike and myself. Languages for this domain can no longer be informally developed since it is necessary to map languages easily to many multiprocessor architectures. Software systems intended for parallel computation require a formal basis so that modifications can be done with relative ease while ensuring integrity in design. List based lan guages are profiting from theoretical foundations such as the Bird-Meertens formalism. Their theory has been successfully used to describe list based parallel algorithms across many classes of architectures."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	1991
Editors:	Lenore M.Restifo Mullin
Contributors:	Michael Jenkins • Gaetan Hains • Robert Bernecky • Guang R. Gao
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	319
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-6789-5
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Computer architecture & logic design > General
LSN:	1-4613-6789-1
Barcode:	9781461367895

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