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language An object-oriented language with fine-grained
parallelism for distributed computing. Ellie is based on
BETA, Smalltalk, and others. Parallelism is supported by
unbounded RPC and "future" objects. Synchronisation is
objects are all modelled by first-class "Ellie objects".
It supports genericity, polymorphism, and
["Ellie Language Definition Report", Birger Andersen
[email protected], SIGPLAN Notices 25(11):45-65, Nov
1990].
(2000-04-02)