Frenetic is a domain-specific language for programming

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s (SDNs). 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 OpenFlow/

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programming problems. In particular, Frenetic introduces a set of purely functional abstractions that enable modular program development, defines high-level, programmer-centric packet-processing operators, and eliminates many of the difficulties of the two-tier programming model by introducing a see-every-

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programming paradigm. Hence Frenetic is a

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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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