Research Catalog

Title

Concurrent programming in ML / John H. Reppy.

Author

Reppy, John H.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 308 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

• "Concurrent Programming in ML presents the language Concurrent ML (CML), which supports the union of two important programming models: concurrent programming and functional programming. CML is an extension of the functional language Standard ML (SML) and is included as part of the Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) distribution. CML supports the programming of process communication and synchronization using a unique higher-order concurrent programming mechanism which allows programmers to define their own communication and synchronization abstractions."--Jacket.
• "The main focus of the book is on the practical use of concurrency to implement naturally concurrent applications. In addition to a tutorial introduction to programming in CML, this book presents three extended examples of using CML for systems programming: a parallel software build system, a simple concurrent window manager, and an implementation of distributed tuple spaces."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is aimed at programmers and professional developers who want to use CML, as well as students, faculty, and other researchers."--Jacket.

Subject

• ML (Computer program language)
• Parallel processing (Electronic computers)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-300) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts in Concurrent Programming -- 3. An Introduction to Concurrent ML -- 4. CML Programming Techniques -- 5. Synchronization and Communication Mechanisms -- 6. The Rationale for CML -- 7. A Software Build System -- 8. A Concurrent Window System -- 9. A CML Implementation of Linda -- 10. Implementing Concurrency in SML/NJ -- App. A. A CML Reference -- App. B. The Semantics of CML.

ISBN

0521480892 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^^99020465^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library