12.4. Historical Resources
JavaSpaces technology is the descendant of almost two decades of academic research on space-based systems. The genesis of space-based systems is David Gelernter's Linda coordination language, which was developed at Yale University in the early 1980s. Gelernter's original paper remains the definitive work on the space- and time-uncoupled nature of space-based systems and offers many insights into the paradigm:
“Generative Communication in Linda,” by David Gelernter, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January, 1985), pp. 80-112.
More recent publications by Gelernter and Nicholas Carriero focus on common programming idioms in tuple-based systems. While these publications have a bias toward ...
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