Distributed Programming via Safe Closure Passing

Programming systems incorporating aspects of functional programming, e.g., higher-order functions, are becoming increasingly popular for large-scale distributed programming. New frameworks such as Apache Spark leverage functional techniques to provide high-level, declarative APIs for in-memory data...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Philipp Haller, Heather Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2016-02-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03598v1