Frenetic is a

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for programming

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(SDN). This domain-specific programming language allows network operators, rather than manually configuring each connected network device, to program the network as a whole. Frenetic is designed to solve major

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programming problems. In particular, Frenetic introduces a set of purely functional abstractions that enable modular program development, defines

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, programmer-centric packet-processing operators, and eliminates many of the difficulties of the two-tier programming model by introducing a see-every- packet programming paradigm. Hence Frenetic is a

functional reactive programming Functional reactive programming (FRP) is a programming paradigm for reactive programming (asynchronous dataflow programming) using the building blocks of functional programming (e.g., map, reduce, filter). FRP has been used for programming graph ...

language operating at a packet level of abstraction.

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* {{official website, http://www.frenetic-lang.org Functional programming Computer networking Functional languages

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