- AmbientTalk
AmbientTalk is an experimental object-oriented distributed
programming language developed at the Programming Technology Laboratory at theVrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium. The language is primarily targeted at writing programs deployed inmobile ad hoc networks .AmbientTalk is meant to serve as an "experimentation platform" to experiment with new language features or programming abstractions to facilitate the construction of software that has to run in highly volatile networks exhibiting intermittent connectivity and little infrastructure [Dedecker J., Van Cutsem T., Mostinckx S., D'Hondt T., De Meuter W. Ambient-oriented Programming in AmbientTalk. In “Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Dave Thomas (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4067, pp. 230-254, Springer-Verlag.”, 2006] .
The language's concurrency features are founded on the actor model and have been largely influenced by the
E programming language . The language's object-oriented features find their influence in languages likeSmalltalk (i.e. block closures, keyworded messages) and Self (prototype-based programming, delegation).More recently, ideas developed in the programming language have been applied to middleware systems as well [citejournal|title=Ambient-Oriented Programming in Fractal|author=A Plsek, P Merle, L Seinturier |journal= hal.inria.fr |url=http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/15/50/89/PDF/OT4AmI-Plsek-Merle-Seinturier-2007.pdf] .
References
External links
* [http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop AmbientTalk official site]
* [http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk Open-source interpreter]
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