Functional programming in a parallel environment: the implementation of FP in MDC

Authors:
T. Christopher;D. Ameiss
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, liT Center, Chicago, Illinois;Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, liT Center, Chicago, Illinois
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1990

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Abstract

Functional Programming has been proposed as a style of programming suitable for parallel computation. At IIT we have developed a language, MDC, for parallel programming using message passing. We contend that MDC is highly suitable for programming parallel computers. This paper evaluates both claims by implementing functional programming in MDC. The relative ease of implementation supports both claims.