Argus is a

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created at

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Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract da ...

between 1982 and 1988, in collaboration with

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, Paul Johnson, Robert Scheifler, and William Weihl. It is an extension of the CLU language, and utilizes most of the same

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and

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

. Argus was designed to support the creation of distributed programs, by encapsulating related procedures within objects called ''guardians'', and by supporting

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called ''actions''.

References

External links

Argus Reference Manual
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