Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:1767 comp.protocols.misc:328 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!b-tech!umich!itivax!john 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 Lines: 14 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