Lynx is a

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for large distributed

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, using

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s. It was developed by the

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in 1984 for the

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. In 1986 at the

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Lynx was ported to the

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running on a

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References

Bibliography

M. L. Scott, "The Lynx Distributed Programming Language: Motivation, Design, and Experience," ''Computer Languages'' 16:3/4 (1991), pp. 209-233. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/scott91lynx.html Concurrent programming languages {{compu-lang-stub