A "coordination language" from Yale, providing a model for concurrency with communication via a shared tuple space. Linda is usually implemented as a subroutine library for a specific base language, as in C-Linda, Fortran-Linda, LindaLISP and Prolog-Linda. It is available from Scientific Computing Associates, Inc. [What is?]
There is a Multi-BinProlog Linda implementation available by FTP.
["Generative Communication in Linda", D. Gelernter <gelernter@cs.yale.edu>, ACM TOPLAS 7(1):80-112 (1985)].
["Linda in Context", N. Carreiro <carreiro@cs.yale.edu> et al, CACM 32(4):444-458 (Apr 1989)].
See also Ease, Lucinda, Melinda.
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