MELDC
A reflective object-oriented concurrent programming language developed in 1990
by the MELD Project of the Programming Systems Laboratory at Columbia
University. MELDC is a redesign of MELD based on C.
The core of the architecture is a micro-kernel (the MELDC kernel), which
encapsulates a minimum set of entities that cannot be modelled as objects. All
components outside of the kernel are implemented as objects in MELDC itself and
are modularised in the MELDC libraries. MELDC is reflective in three dimensions:
structural, computational and architectural. The structural reflection indicates
that classes and meta-classes are objects, which are written in MELDC. The
computational reflection means that object behaviours can be computed and
extended at run time. The architectural reflection indicates that new
features/properties (e.g. persistency and remoteness) can be constructed in
MELDC.
Version 2.0 runs on Sun-4/SunOS 4.1 and DECstation and MIPS/Ultrix 4.2.
E-mail: Gail Kaiser <meldc@cs.columbia.edu>.
MELDC is available under licence from <MeldC@cs.columbia.edu>
and may not be used for commercial purposes.
(1992-12-15)
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