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AL++ is a software system which combines high-level object-oriented facilities with the simplicity, flexibility and power of the Actor computational model. AL++ lets programmers develop C++ parallel applications and run them on multicomputer platforms.
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Santo, M.D., Frattolillo, F., Russo, W., Zimeo, E. (1996). The AL++ project: object-oriented parallel programming on multicomputers. In: Jelly, I., Gorton, I., Croll, P. (eds) Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34984-8_25
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