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An Approach to Persistent Programming

Author(s) -

Malcolm P. Atkinson,

Peter J. Bailey,

Kenneth Chisholm,

Paul Cockshott,

Ron Morrison

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

the computer journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1460-2067

pISSN - 0010-4620

ISBN - 0-55860-000-0

DOI - 10.1093/comjnl/26.4.360

Subject(s) - computer science , programming language , implementation , data type , persistence (discontinuity) , identification (biology) , task (project management) , persistent data structure , type (biology) , code (set theory) , programming domain , property (philosophy) , abstract data type , theoretical computer science , programming paradigm , inductive programming , ecology , philosophy , botany , geotechnical engineering , management , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , engineering , economics , biology

This paper presents the identification of a new programming language concept and reports our initial investigations of its utility. The concept is to identify persistence as an orthogonal property of data, independent of data type and the way in which data is manipulated. This is expressed by the principle that all data objects independent of their data type should have the same rights to persistence or transience. We expect to achieve persistent independent programming, so that the same code is applicable to data of any persistence. We have designed a language PS-algol by utilising these ideas and constructed a number of implementations. The experience gained is reported here, as a step in the task of achieving languages with proper accommodation for persistent programming.

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