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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Microsoft Axum


Brief Description
A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing.

Overview
Installers: Axum is an incubation project from Microsofts Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. Its a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Axum Lite: Contains the Axum command-line compiler and Axum runtime as well as the sample projects. Programmer's Guide: Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language. Language Specification: A detailed specification of the Axum language.

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