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From: thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
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Date: 27 May 88 11:57:55 GMT
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[ Sorry about the large number of groups in the Newgroups: line, but I'm trying
  to reach a large audience of initial viewers in the hopes of getting some
  kind of response. ]

    I'm interested in gathering information about parallel implementations of
object oriented programming systems where objects may communicate across
processors.  I will post a summary to comp.parallel if there is enough response
to warrant it.

    I've been tossing the idea around of building a distributed object oriented
system on top of FORTH.  The idea would be to extend FORTH to an object
oriented approach by modifying the vocabulary and dictionary search mechanisms.
Objects would then communicate by message passing, generalized to message
passing to a different processing node if the object did not reside on the
current node.

    I haven't seen anything in the literature that's passed my way about such
a system, but then again, I don't carefully peruse the parallel literature.
Any article references, personal anecdotes, or general information would be
appreciated.

				Thanks in advance,
					Rich
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