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From: john@itivax.UUCP (John Sauter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: Linda
Keywords: Parallel Languages Yale BITNET Gelertner
Message-ID: <182@itivax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 18:37:28 GMT
References: <251@belltec.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@itivax.UUCP (John Sauter)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor
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In article <251@belltec.UUCP> jom@belltec.UUCP (Jerry Merlaine) writes:
>A trade rag blurb that I read the other day and can't find now discussed
>the programming language Linda.  It is a language for writing network
>distributed programs and compiles into C, Fortrash, Modula-2, and some others.
> ....
>It was written by David Gelertner at Yale.  Does anyone have any info on this?
>Is it public domain? FTP-able? 

Check the article in Computer, August 1986.  Linda was implemented on
AT&T Bell Labs S/Net multicomputer, MicroVAX network and an Intel
iPSC hypercube but at the time of the article was still pretty
shaky.  Linda basically added a few simple primitives to existing
languages.  Gelernter address is Dept of Comp. Science, PO Box 2158,
Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520-2158.  That's all I know