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From: jom@belltec.UUCP (Jerry Merlaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Linda
Keywords: Parallel Languages Yale BITNET Gelertner
Message-ID: <251@belltec.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 02:27:09 GMT
Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA
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Hello Friends,

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.
Paraphrase: "Currently programs talk to each other over the network
with a sort of telephone call.  Linda uses a distributed bulletin board
instead, called 'tuple space'.  All the subprograms on individual machines
add tuples to the tuple space and pull them off whenever they like."
The very superficial article implied that it's a very slick system
for doing distributed programs and doing low-level communication between them.
It was written by David Gelertner at Yale.  Does anyone have any info on this?
Is it public domain? FTP-able? 
How about a mail address (from usenet) to Professor Gelertner or
a general postmaster/address finder at Yale?

Thanks in advance,
Jerry O. Merlaine
Bell Technologies
Fremont CA
pacbell.com!belltec!jom