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AmbientTalk: modern actors for modern networks

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FTfJP '12: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs

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We introduce AmbientTalk, a dynamic, object-oriented, distributed programming language. AmbientTalk focuses primarily on the domain of mobile peer-to-peer applications, which are becoming more and more widespread in the wake of smartphone platforms such as iOS and Android. AmbientTalk runs on Android, and can be thought of as a scripting language for that platform.

We will discuss AmbientTalk's roots and devote special attention to its concurrent and distributed language features, which are founded on the actor model. Next, we will showcase the language by explaining a peer-to-peer application. We show how resilient mobile applications can be constructed with familiar building blocks like objects and messages, but also in what way these building blocks have to be adapted to fit the characteristics of mobile networks.

For the past six years, we have been using AmbientTalk as a research and teaching platform at the Software Languages Lab of the University of Brussels. We will close the talk by relating our experiences in designing and using the language.

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AmbientTalk: modern actors for modern networks
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Concurrent computing methodologies
    1. Concurrent programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages

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FTfJP '12: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs

June 2012

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ISBN:9781450312721

DOI:10.1145/2318202

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Wei-Ngan Chin
National University of Singapore
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Aquinas Hobor
National University of Singapore

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Aumayr DMarr SBéra CBoix EMössenböck HTilevich EMössenböck H(2018)Efficient and deterministic record & replay for actor languagesProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Managed Languages & Runtimes10.1145/3237009.3237015(1-14)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3237009.3237015

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