Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!Steven From: zenith@ensmp.fr (Steven Ericsson-Zenith) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Ease Information Message-ID: <12549@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 21:15:03 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 69 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu In-Reply-To: Steve Stevenson's message of Wed, 9 Jan 91 07:44:01 -0500 <9101091244.AA19724@hubcap.clemson.edu> C'mon, Zenith; please post info on where to get (presumably prelim.) info on _Ease_ !! Many of us are intrigued by your 3 1/2-part criticism of Linda (esp. C-Linda). If on the Internet, please give specific retrieval instructions, since I for one only have ftp access through mail gateways. Thanx, My apologies, with the number of reports I've (Yale) has sent out (about 200 hard copy and well over 100 notified ftps) I figured everyone and their budgie had a copy by now :-) I've had a number of particular requests and in the next few days I promise I'll post a brief outline of the Ease model <>. This will save you trying to work it out from the report. It's probably worth mentioning that I'll be giving a talk at a seminar in the Ecole des Mines de Paris, in Paris (Blvd St. Michel), on the 17th of this month at around 14:00 and on the 14th at INRIA in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis (Near Nice in the South of France). In both cases the talk is entitled: "Process Interaction Models: An overview and rationale for Ease" For further information you can send email to the respective hosts: 17th Jan, Ecole des Mines de Paris : Francois Irigoin 14th Feb, INRIA , Valbonne Sophia Antipolis : Philippe Mussi The report "Programming with Ease: a semiotic definition of the language" was published in July 1990 at Yale as Research Report RR809. I've just checked and you can still anonymous ftp a copy of the report from bulldog.cs.yale.edu. The report is in ~/pub/ease.tex.Z. It is a compressed LaTeX file. Please send me email to say that you have taken a copy. If you have any trouble let me know, I can probably drop a copy at an ftp site near you. If you really must have a hard copy send email to me here. Land mail outside Europe takes time! If you can't get access to bulldog, send me email and I'll see what I can do. Though, to reduce bandwidth, I suggest you wait for the Ease overview that I'll post in the next few days. If you are still interested and want more details you can get the report then. I am currently compiling an Ease mailing list which should become active shortly. If you want to be included on this list send me your full address (including land mail address). Everyone who has written to me regarding Ease over the past two/three months - during the relocation of myself and project to France - will be hearing from me shortly. If you have sent me mail for any reason, and had no reply by the end of this month - please accept my apologies and try again. Oh, and yes, I am still compiling a list of parallel applications (all models) available publically. I've been a bit distracted lately :-) - I'll get back to the list soon. After all, I have some tests to run :-) Thank you for your interest. Warmest regards, Steven -- Steven Ericsson Zenith * email: zenith@ensmp.fr * fax: (1).64.69.47.09 | | voice: (1).64.69.48.52 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris 35 Rue Saint-Honore 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex France "All see beauty as beauty only because they see ugliness" LaoTzu