[jdale@fla.fujitsu.com: New Language Addition]
Francois-Rene Rideau
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:41:05 +0000
From: Jonathan Dale <jdale@fla.fujitsu.com>
Organization: Fujitsu Labs of America, Inc.
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Hi,
I think that there is an interesting language that is missing from your Language Review Web page (http://www.tunes.org/~tunes/doc/Review/Languages.html).
It is called APRIL (Agent Process Interaction Language) and more information about it is available from http://www.nar.fla.com/Activities/Programming/APRIL/april.html
APRIL is a symbolic programming language that draws from various programming paradigms, such as functional and logic. It has a number of advanced features which make it suitable as a language for implementing distributed systems and applications (such as fully asynchronous messaging). It was intended to be the core language upon which an agent-based system could be built since the macro sub-language can alter and extend the syntax and semantics of the language. For example, there are a set of macros which make the language fully object-oriented (including active objects and multiple inheritance) and another set which permit a Prolog-style syntax. APRIL also has features which allow it to support mobile agents and mobile agent systems.
If you have any questions or require any more information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Dale, PhD
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Fujitsu Labs of America, Inc.
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