The RPC calculus

  • Authors:
  • Ezra E.K. Cooper;Philip Wadler

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • PPDP '09 Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Several recent language designs have offered a unified language for programming a distributed system, with explicit notation of locations; we call these "location-aware" languages. These languages provide constructs allowing the programmer to control the location (the choice of host, for example) where a piece of code should run, which can be useful for security or performance reasons. On the other hand, a central mantra of WWW system engineering prescribes that web servers should be "stateless": that no "session state" should be maintained on behalf of individual clients---that is, no state that pertains to the particular point of the interaction at which a client program resides. Many implementations of location-aware languages are not at home on the web: they hold some kind of client-specific state on the server. We show how to implement a symmetrical location-aware language on top of a stateless server.