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Qlisp: experience and new directions

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PPEALS '88: Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN conference on Parallel programming: experience with applications, languages and systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/62115.62127

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Qlisp, a dialect of Common Lisp, has been proposed as a multiprocessing programming language which is suitable for studying the styles of parallel programming at the medium-grain level. An initial version of Qlisp has been implemented on a multiprocessor and a number of experiments with it conducted. This paper describes the implementation, reports on some of the experiments, and presents some new constructs that are suggested from programming experience with Qlisp.

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Qlisp: experience and new directions
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Multiple instruction, multiple data
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types

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PPEALS '88: Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN conference on Parallel programming: experience with applications, languages and systems

January 1988

246 pages

ISBN:0897912764

DOI:10.1145/62115

Editor:
Richard L. Wexelblat
Philips Labs., Briarcliff Manor, NY

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 23, Issue 9
Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN PPEALS 1988
Sept. 1988
246 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/62116
Editor:
Richard L. Wexelblat
Philips Labs., Briarcliff Manor, NY
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