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Actus(ID:839/act024)

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Country: United States
Designed 1979
Published: 1979

Perrot, Dhillon et al, The Queen's Univ., Belfast, N. Ireland  1979-1989

Pascal with parallel extensions, similar to the earlier Glypnir.

1979 Parallel constants, index sets. Descendants include Parallel Pascal, Vector C, and CMU's recent language PIE.

Structures:
Related languages
Glypnir → Actus   Influence
Pascal → Actus   Extension of
Actus → Actus 2   Evolution of
Actus → Parallel Pascal   Evolution of
Actus → PIE   Evolution of
Actus → Vector C   Influence
References:
  • Perrott, R.H. (1979) Perrott, R.H. "A Language for Array and Vector Processors," Abstract Extract: INTRODUCTION Extract: Design Approach Extract: Language Criteria
          in (1979) TOPLAS 1(2) Oct 1979
  • Perrott, R. H., and Dhillon, P. S. (1981) Perrott, R. H., and Dhillon, P. S. "An experiment with Fortran and Pascal" pp491-496
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, R. H. (1982) Perrott, R. H. "Languages for vector and parallel processors" Computer Physics Communications 26(3-4) June 1982, pp267-275 Abstract
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, R H; Crookes, D; Milligan, P (1983) Perrott, R H; Crookes, D; Milligan, P "Programming language ACTUS" Software - Practice and Experience. Vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 305-322. 1983 Abstract
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, RA (1983) Perrott, RA "Actus: User manual" Internal Rep. CS203, Dept. of Computer Science, The Queen's University, Belfast 1983
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrot, R.H.; Crookes, D.; Milligan, P.; Purdy, W. (1985) Perrot, R.H.; Crookes, D.; Milligan, P.; Purdy, W.R.M. "A compiler for an array and vector processing language" IEEE transactions on software engineering, vol SE-II, pp.471-47B, May 1985.
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, R. H.; Crookes, D. and P. Milligan (1985) Perrott, R. H.; Crookes, D. and P. Milligan "Implementing a parallel language on the CRAY-1" Computer Physics Communications 37(1-3) July 1985, pp119-124 Abstract
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, R. H. (1987) Perrott, R. H. "Parallel programming" AW 1987
          in (1981) Software - Practice and Experience 11(05) May 1981
  • Perrott, R.H.; Lyttle, R.W.; Dhillon, P.S. (1987) Perrott, R.H.; Lyttle, R.W.; Dhillon, P.S. "The Design and Implementation of a Pascal-Based Language for Array Processor Architectures" pp266 - 287
          in (1987) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1987
  • Paalvast, Edwin M.; van Gemund, Arjan J. ; Sips, H (1990) Paalvast, Edwin M.; van Gemund, Arjan J. ; Sips, Henk J. "A method for parallel program generation with an application to the Booster language" Extract: The booster language 1:
          in (0) ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 18(03) June 1990 (Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Supercomputing)
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