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AmbientTalk is a concurrent, distributed programming language designed specifically for mobile ad hoc networks. It's concurrency model is inspired by actors, and more specifically the event loop concurrency model of the [[E]] language. |
AmbientTalk is a concurrent, distributed programming language designed specifically for mobile ad hoc networks. It's concurrency model is inspired by actors, and more specifically the event loop concurrency model of the [[E]] language. AmbientTalk has built-in support for distributed service discovery and (asynchronous) messaging. |
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The language was designed at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, primarily as a research framework for exploring new concurrent and distributed language features for highly dynamic, decentralized networks, such as wireless, mobile ad hoc networks. |
The language was designed at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, primarily as a research framework for exploring new concurrent and distributed language features for highly dynamic, decentralized networks, such as wireless, mobile ad hoc networks. |
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The default implementation of AmbientTalk is a Java interpreter, which features full interoperability with the JVM, enabling AmbientTalk code to use existing Java libraries, and enabling Java code to use AmbientTalk as a distributed scripting language. |
The default implementation of AmbientTalk is a Java interpreter, which features full interoperability with the JVM, enabling AmbientTalk code to use existing Java libraries, and enabling Java code to use AmbientTalk as a distributed scripting language. Recent version of AmbientTalk also run on the Android OS, making AmbientTalk portable across a wide range of mobile phones. |
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==Trying AmbientTalk== |
==Trying AmbientTalk== |
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Latest revision as of 19:35, 9 May 2011
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
| Garbage collected: | Yes |
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| Parameter passing methods: | By value |
| Type safety: | Safe |
| Type strength: | Strong |
| Type compatibility: | Duck |
| Type expression: | Explicit |
| Type checking: | Dynamic |
| See Also: |
AmbientTalk is a concurrent, distributed programming language designed specifically for mobile ad hoc networks. It's concurrency model is inspired by actors, and more specifically the event loop concurrency model of the E language. AmbientTalk has built-in support for distributed service discovery and (asynchronous) messaging.
The language was designed at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, primarily as a research framework for exploring new concurrent and distributed language features for highly dynamic, decentralized networks, such as wireless, mobile ad hoc networks.
The default implementation of AmbientTalk is a Java interpreter, which features full interoperability with the JVM, enabling AmbientTalk code to use existing Java libraries, and enabling Java code to use AmbientTalk as a distributed scripting language. Recent version of AmbientTalk also run on the Android OS, making AmbientTalk portable across a wide range of mobile phones.
Trying AmbientTalk
The open source AmbientTalk interpreter
To run an AmbientTalk program:
<lang sh>$ iat program.at</lang>
To get a REPL (aka prompt, shell, interactive interpreter):
<lang sh>$ iat</lang>
See Also
- Open source google code project
- AmbientTalk home page at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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- AmbientTalk Implementations (1 P)
- AmbientTalk User (1 P)
Pages in category "AmbientTalk"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.