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Concurrent programming language—LISPTALK

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 23 , Issue 4 (April 1988) table of contents

Pages: 71 - 80

Year of Publication: 1988

ISSN:0362-1340

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Chang Li

Institute of Computing Technology Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

LISPTALK is a concurrent language which is based on both LISP and CSP. It is a process-oriented language. Besides the idea of pure LISP and CSP, its main features are COTALK, CHANNEL-PORT, and LINK. Within a process there may exist many LISP functions which can be defined by recursion. The communication among processes uses INPUT and OUTPUT function through CHANNEL-PORT. The LINK connects the CHANNEL-PORTS of processes staticlly and synchronizes the communication. LISPTALK can be used to object-oriented programming like SMALLTALK-80. The language is also suit for vision understanding and robotics. The most interesting is the similarity between LISPTALK's structure and human brain structure.

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