Pointon, Robert F.; Priebe, Steffen; Loidl, Hans-Wolfgang; Loogen, Rita; Trinder, Phil W. Functional vs object-oriented distributed languages. (English) Zbl 1023.68509 Moreno-Díaz, Roberto (ed.) et al., Computer aided systems theory - EUROCAST 2001. A selection of papers from the 8th international workshop, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 19-23, 2001. Revised papers. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2178, 642-656 (2001). Summary: Conventional distributed programming languages require the programmer to explicitly specify many aspects of distributed co-ordination, including resource location, task placement, communication and synchronisation. Functional languages aim to provide higher-level abstraction, and this paper investigates the effectiveness of this for distributed co-ordination. The investigation contrasts and compares contrasts Java and two Haskell-based distributed functional languages, Eden and GdH. Three distributed programs are used as case studies, and the performance and programming effort are reported.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0977.00038]. MSC: 68N15 Theory of programming languages 68N18 Functional programming and lambda calculus 68N19 Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.) PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{R. F. Pointon} et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2178, 642--656 (2001; Zbl 1023.68509) Full Text: Link