Cantor User Report, Version 2.0

Abstract

Cantor is an object-oriented programming notation for describing concurrent computations in terms of small concurrent objects. The objects of Cantor are independent computing agents that interact only by message passing. Each object is comprised of a set of private variables, called the "persistent variables" or "acquaintances", a message list used to identify the contents of a message, and a sequence of commands that describes how the object will react when it receives a new message. All variables used in Cantor programs are dynamically typed and lexically scoped.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA444291

Entities

People

  • C. L. Seitz
  • W. C. Athas

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

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  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.