Making C++ a distributed programming language

Author

Wu, Zhixue

Author_Institution

Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

22-24 Sep 1993

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

233

Abstract

Complex applications, such as computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and multimedia applications, can derive the benefits of abstraction, modularity, extensibility, and reuse from object-oriented programming. However, object-oriented languages do not provide direct support for distributed computing. This makes programming in object-oriented languages in a distributed system fraught with potential difficulties. By making object-oriented languages provide distribution transparency, it is hoped that the task becomes comparable with that of programming in a more traditional centralized system. The author describes the approach by which they make C++ become a distributed programming language and address some design and implementation issues

Keywords

C language; distributed processing; object-oriented programming; C++; distributed programming language; distributed system; distribution transparency; object-oriented languages; Application software; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer applications; Computer languages; Distributed computing; Laboratories; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4430-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344152

Filename

344152