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From: ncjuul@diku.dk (Niels Christian Juul)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Distributed OO Languages
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.204217.24879@diku.dk>
Date: 18 Sep 90 20:42:17 GMT
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Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>I have recently finished a prototype implementation of   OO||, an
>object oriented programming language / environment for distributed /
>parallel processing.  It is in support of my phd dissertation.  
>I will make it publicly available by the 1st of December (when I should
>be totally finished).

>The implementation supports distributed heterogeneous computing
>environments.  Our test bed includes 30 SUN 3's,4's and Sparcstations,
>1 Encore Multimax 6 Processor, 1 IBM 3090, 15 PS/2 70 AIX, 1 Cogent XTM
>and  several plain unix boxes (vax, pyramid, att).   The language
>supports inheritance, delegation, classes, activities, polymorphism,
>numerous reflective capibilities, object migration and modification, 
>class modification, and a lot of graphics stuff (the main are of my research).

>| Peter C. Bahrs                                                         |

This sounds interesting to me.
Could you provide more details, i.e. contrast the facilities to other
distributed OO languages like, ABCL, BETA, ConcurrentSmalltalk, 
DistributedSmalltalk, Ellie, Emerald, POOL,...

Niels Christian
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