Orc (programming language)

Orc

Paradigm	concurrent, nondeterministic
Designed by	Jayadev Misra
Developer	Jayadev Misra, William R. Cook, David Kitchin, Adrian Quark, and others
First appeared	2004
Website	{{#property:P856}}
Influenced by
Haskell, ML, Oz, Smalltalk, Pict

Orc is a concurrent, nondeterministic computer programming language created by Jayadev Misra at the University of Texas at Austin.

Orc provides uniform access to computational services, including distributed communication and data manipulation, through sites. Using four simple concurrency primitives, the programmer orchestrates the invocation of sites to achieve a goal, while managing timeouts, priorities, and failures.

External links

• Orc main page

Bibliography

• Misra, Jayadev. 2004. A programming model for the orchestration of Web services. In Proceedings of the Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Second international Conference (September 28–30, 2004). SEFM. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 2-11. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SEFM.2004.2