The foundations of functional programming languages are examined from both historical
and technical perspectives. Their evolution is traced through several critical periods: early …

parallel algorithftls. Researchers have developed efficient parallel algorithms to solve most
problems for which efficient sequential solutions are known. Although some ofthese …

This paper gives an overview of the implementation of NESL, a portable nested data-parallel
language. This language and its implementation are the first to fully support nested data …

Abstract CC++ is Compositional C++, a parallel object-oriented notation that consists of C++
with six extensions. The goals of the CC++ project are to provide a theory, notation and tools …

This report describes Nesl, a strongly-typed, applicative, data-parallel language. Nesl is
intended to be used as a portable interface for programming a variety of parallel and vector …

General purpose multiprocessors have largely failed to meet expectations for
programmability and performance. We blame the lack of usable parallel programming …

General purpose hybrid dataflow/von-Neumann architectures are gaining attraction as
effective parallel platforms. Although different implementations differ in the way they merge …

We introduce Perceus, an algorithm for precise reference counting with reuse and
specialization. Starting from a functional core language with explicit control-flow, Perceus …

Partitioning and scheduling techniques are necessary to implement parallel languages on
multiprocessors. Multiprocessor performance is maximized when parallelism between tasks …

A compositional parallel program is a program constructed by composing component
programs in parallel, where the composed program inherits properties of its components. In …