Special issue on Parallel and distributed computing based on the functional programming paradigm

摘要

The renaissance of the functional paradigm is a fact—languages like Haskell and Erlang find more and more industrial applications, and functionalconcepts are being introduced into classic object-oriented technologies such as Java and .NET. While this trend may not result in a completeparadigm-shift, “paradigm-mix” is alreadywell established. The concepts inspired by functional approach help in building highly concurrent systemsin various technologies. Nevertheless, many problems of massive parallelism still remain open. We believe that the work presented in this specialsection is a valuable step toward methods for building efficient, scalable, and robust software for modern multicore and multimode hardwareplatforms.