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Language peer sets for Actra:
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Actra(ID:1785/act021)

Multiprocessing Smalltalk 

alternate simple view
Country: Canada
Designed 1985
Published: 1986
Sammet category: Specialised Languages

An exemplar-based, mutitasking, multiprocessing Smalltalk.
Lalonde et al Carleton University, 1985

used in DFACTT: Data Fusion and Correlation Techniques Testbed

A full function tactical SIGINT production system


Related languages
Actors → Actra   Influence
Smalltalk-80 → Actra   Influence
References:
  • Thomas, D.A., and Lalonde, W.R., Actra: The Design (1985) Thomas, D.A., and Lalonde, W.R., Actra: The Design of an Industrial Fifth Generation Smalltalk System, Proc. of IEEE COMPINT '85, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 1985, pp. 13g-140.
  • LaLonde, W. R., D. A. Thomas, et al. (1986). (1986) LaLonde, W. R., D. A. Thomas, et al. (1986). "An exemplar based Smalltalk." Abstract DOI
          in [OOPSLA 1986] (1986) SIGPLAN Notices 21(11) November 1986 (OOPSLA - Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications 1986)
  • Thomas, David; LaLonde, Wilf R.; and Pugh, John R. (1986) Thomas, David; LaLonde, Wilf R.; and Pugh, John R. "Actra - a mutitasking multiprocessing smalltalk" Technical Report SCS-TR-92, Carleton University, May 1986. Abstract
          in [OOPSLA 1986] (1986) SIGPLAN Notices 21(11) November 1986 (OOPSLA - Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications 1986)
  • Epstein, D. and W. R. LaLonde (1988) Epstein, D. and W. R. LaLonde "A SMALLTALK window system based on constraints."
          in [OOPSLA 1988] (1988) SIGPLAN Notices 23(11) November 1988 (OOPSLA '88)
  • LaLonde, W. R. and M. v. Gulik (1988) LaLonde, W. R. and M. v. Gulik "Building a backtracking facility in SMALLTALK without kernel support."
          in [OOPSLA 1988] (1988) SIGPLAN Notices 23(11) November 1988 (OOPSLA '88)
  • Thomas, D. A. et al. (1988) Thomas, D. A. et al. "Actra - a multitasking/multiprocessing Smalltalk." Abstract Extract: Introduction DOI Extract: Conclusions
          in [OOCP 1988] (1989) SIGPLAN Notices 24(04) April 1989 incoroporating Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Object-based concurrent programming, San Diego
  • Philippsen, Michael (2000) Philippsen, Michael "A survey of concurrent object-oriented languages" pp917-980
          in (2000) Concurrency: Practice and Experience 2000 v12
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